Dr. David Cox

Biography

David Cox is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Medicine, specializing in Hematology. He is the principal investigator of the Cox Lab, which is expected to commence operations in July 2025. Cox is also a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigator and a member of the ChEM-H Institute. After completing his undergraduate studies in Biology at Stanford, he enrolled in the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD program, where he earned an MD and a PhD in Biology. His doctoral research focused on the discovery and development of CRISPR-Cas enzymes as novel DNA and RNA editing tools. During his final year of medical school, he conducted research under David Baker, focusing on the design of sequence-specific DNA binding proteins. Additionally, Cox completed an internal medicine residency and a clinical fellowship in hematology at Stanford, where he also did postdoctoral research in Rhiju Das's lab, advancing methods for RNA structure prediction and multiplexed detection of RNA-protein interactions.

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