Steven Dowdy

Steven Dowdy is a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, where his research has focused on the delivery of novel therapeutics, especially RNAi therapies, into cells. He previously served as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an assistant professor of pathology and medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In addition to Generation Bio, he serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of Deep Genomics and NeuBase Therapeutics and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society. He is a coauthor of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in cell and molecular medicine. Dr. Dowdy earned his Ph.D. in microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California School of Medicine and holds a B.S. with honors from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California Irvine. He conducted postdoctoral research with Dr. Robert Weinberg at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.