University of Washington
Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1996, and completed a Fulbright scholarship to India in 1997. He then entered the Medical Scientist Training Program at Harvard Medical School, receiving his Ph.D. in 2005 and his M.D. in 2007. His Ph.D. with George Church notably included one of the first successful proof-of-concepts of massively parallel or next generation DNA sequencing. Dr. Shendure joined the faculty at the Department of Genome Sciences in 2007. His research group in Seattle is broadly interested in developing new experimental methods and computational tools for the parallelized interrogation of biological systems. For example, in 2009, his group pioneered the development of exome
sequencing as a new approach to solving the genetic basis of Mendelian disorders.
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