Andrea Smidler

Harvard University, T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Andrea is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University where she is working to develop gene drives in the malaria mosquito. After graduating from the UNC-Chapel Hill in 2011, and receiving her Master’s from U. of Strasbourg in 2012, she began her doctoral research at Harvard. As a joint member of the Flaminia Catteruccia and George Church laboratories she is at the forefront of mosquito genetic engineering for next generation vector control strategies. So far during her short career she has co-authored seven publications, has advised on a Woodrow Wilson Center Program on Emerging Technologies panel, and has co-authored a patent on CRISPR gene drives among other achievements.