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Shengdar Tsai, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
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Shengdar Tsai, PhD
Experimental Hematology
MS 355, Room D3022B
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38195-3678
Education
BS – University of Michigan MS – North Carolina State University PhD – North Carolina State University Fellowship – Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Interests
- Genome Engineering
- Improving genomic methods to define and measure gene editing “off-target” effects
- Protein engineering of CRISPR-Cas nucleases for precise gene correction
- Regulation of DNA damage repair choice between error-prone non-homologous end-joining and precise homology-directed repair
- Hematology
- Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas screening for novel effectors of hematological diseases
- Developing novel strategies for allele-specific editing of genetic mutations that cause sickle cell disease and other hematological disorders
