Matthew Hebden Porteus is Sutardja Chuk Professor of Definitive and Curative Medicine at Stanford University.
[1] In 2003, as a postdoctoral fellow in David Baltimore's lab at the California Institute of Technology, Porteus was the first to demonstrate precise gene editing in human cells using chimeric nucleases.
[2] He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and completed his MD and PhD at Stanford University.
[3] For his post-doctoral work he trained with David Baltimore at MIT and Caltech.
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