Emma J Chory, Ph.D.
Emma Chory is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. She received her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University and her doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. She became interested in epigenetics when she worked with Dr. James Bradner at Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute developing inhibitors of histone-modifying proteins that cause Mixed Lineage Leukemia. As a PhD student at Stanford, she worked with Gerald Crabtree studying chromatin remodeling complexes, and used synthetic biology in mammalian stem cells to discover how nucleosome turnover establishes cell fate and is mis-regualted in cancer. As postdoctoral fellow with Kevin Esvelt and Jim Collins at MIT, she developed novel systems to enable the high-throughput, systematic, and quantitative evolution of therapeutic proteins and cellular populations using automation and directed evolution.
A complete list of publications is available via Google Scholar.
Appointments
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Aug 2023)
Affiliations
Duke Center for Advanced Genomics Technologies
Duke Science & Technology (DST) Scholars
University Program in Genetics and Genomics
Courses Taught
BME406L/706L: Biotech Design II
BME590: The Art of Automated Discovery: Engineering Biology at Scale
Education
PhD Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2018)
MS Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2014)
BS Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University (2012)
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
SLAS Innovation Award Winner
Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH/National Cancer Institute
Hanna H. Gray Semi-Finalist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ruth L. Kirschstein, Pre-doctoral Fellowship. NIH/National Cancer Institute
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Contact Info
Email: emma.chory {at} duke {dot} edu
Office:
CIEMAS Room 2353b
101 Science Drive
Durham, NC
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