Dr Luke Gilbert
Meet Luke, a co-investigator on PROMINENT
Luke Gilbert is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology, the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Investigator in the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. Luke was an early pioneer in repurposed CRISPR systems that are used to turn genes on (CRISPRa) and off (CRISPRi) by editing the epigenome. More recently, the Gilbert lab has developed new strategies for editing heritable epigenetic memories (CRISPRoff/on) and for systematically mapping human genetic interactions at very large scales or at single cell resolution. The Gilbert lab is focused on using CRISPR to tackle big problems in human biology with a special focus on cancer.