Dr. Steven Banik

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Steven Banik's research interests focus on rewiring mammalian biology through chemical biotechnology, with a strong emphasis on molecular design and construction. His lab integrates chemical biology, organic chemistry, protein engineering, and cell molecular biology to manipulate biological machines present within mammalian cells. The overarching aims of his projects are to perform new functions that illuminate the regulatory machinery and potential scope of mammalian biology. He places particular emphasis on studying biological mechanisms that are co-opted by synthetic molecules, including both small molecules and proteins. Through these concepts, he develops novel therapeutic strategies aimed at treating aging-related disorders, genetic diseases, and cancer. Before joining the faculty at Stanford, Steven was a postdoctoral fellow at NIH Burroughs CASI under the supervision of Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi, where he developed targeted protein degradation approaches that leverage extracellular space lysosome targeting chimeras (LYTACs). He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 2016, where he worked with Prof. Eric Jacobsen on synthetic methods for selective and catalytic difluorination of organic molecules and new approaches for generating and controlling reactive cationic intermediates in asymmetric catalysis.

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