Fyodor Dmitriyevich Urnov (Russian: Фёдор Дми́триевич Урнов; born 1968)[1][2] is a Russian-born biomedical researcher and who has played a leading role in the field of genome editing.

[6][7][8] Urnov is considered a pioneering figure in the field of genome editing[7] and his work has been cited widely.

[9][10][11] Fyodor Urnov was born in Soviet Russia to a linguist mother and a literary critic father.

After graduating, Urnov worked with DNA in the laboratory of Alan Wolffe at the National Institutes of Health.

Shortly after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Urnov was offered an adjunct position as a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.