Martin Jinek

Dr. Jinek is a co-founder of Caribou and an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich in the Department of Biochemistry. His research focuses on molecular mechanisms that orchestrate cellular regulation through protein-RNA interactions. His studies include biochemical and structural approaches to investigate these processes at the atomic level. Dr. Jinek has contributed significantly to the field of CRISPR biology both through basic discovery and through the invention of new CRISPR-based technologies. He has won both the Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship and the EMBO Long-term Fellowship. Dr. Jinek received an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Structural Biology from the University of Heidelberg. He was a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Jennifer Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley.