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Jared Toettcher is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Originally from California, he graduated with a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and completed his Ph.D. in Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. His doctoral research, conducted under the guidance of Bruce Tidor at MIT and Galit Lahav at Harvard Medical School, revolved around mammalian cells' responses to DNA damage and cell cycle regulation. Following his doctoral studies, Toettcher served a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cancer Research Institute, working with Wendell Lim and Orion Weiner at UC San Francisco, where he developed innovative tools for engineering optogenetic inputs into cell signaling pathways, particularly the Ras and PI3 kinase pathways. Toettcher's research specializes in understanding signaling pathways that orchestrate complex cell decision-making processes, with a focus on how Ras and PI3K activities govern cell fate control and how these pathways become dysregulated in cancer cells.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Focused on understanding and controlling complex cell behaviors using optogenetics and studying signaling pathways.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.