Kevin M. Esvelt Session Overview

KEVIN ESVELT is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Sculpting Evolution Group in advancing biotechnology safely. He was the inventor of asynthetic microbial ecosystem to rapidly evolve useful biomolecules, and subsequently helped pioneer the development of CRISPR, a powerful new method of genome engineering. In 2013, Esvelt was the first to identify the potential for CRISPR “gene drive” systems to alter wild populations of
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