Dr. Alex Shalek

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Biography

Alex Shalek is a leading researcher in the fields of single-cell transcriptomics and computational biology. He is the director of the Shalek Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his lab focuses on developing experimental and computational platforms to better understand and engineer immune responses within tissues. Utilizing a comprehensive five-step approach, the Shalek Lab collaborates with partners globally to enable deeper, mechanistic inquiries into cellular dynamics and their effects on human health and disease. Through innovations in high-throughput techniques such as the Seq-Well method, the lab aims to elucidate complex biological processes at a single-cell level, thus contributing to fields such as drug discovery and public health. Shalek's academic background includes a solid foundation in chemistry and interdisciplinary research perspectives, which he continually applies in his work to push the boundaries of biological research.

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Shalek Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA

Leading a research lab focused on single-cell transcriptomics and immune response engineering.