Education

  • Michigan State University, BA, 2006, Economics
  • University of Illinois, Chicago, PhD, 2017, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
  • University of Illinois, Chicago, MD, 2017, Medicine
  • University of California, San Francisco, Resident, 2020, Clinical Pathology
  • University of California, San Francisco, Fellow, 2021, Cellular Therapy & Transfusion Medicine

Honors & Awards

  • 2022-present
    Member, Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative
  • 2022-present
    Member, Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology (GIGI)
  • 2021
    Distinguished Achievement in Scientific Leadership Award, GIGI
  • 2021-present
    Alpha Stem Cell Clinic (ASCC) Clinical Fellowship, UCSF / CIRM
  • 2021
    Certification in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, American Board of Pathology
  • 2020
    Laurence J. Marton Award, Department of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF
  • 2020
    Certification in Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology
  • 2019-2020
    Chief Resident, Department of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF
  • 2019
    NIH LRP Award, NCATS
  • 2018
    Krevans Award, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
  • 2018
    Laurence J. Marton Award, Department of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF
     

Selected Publications

  1. Chang CR, Vykunta VS, Lee JHJ, Li K, Kochendoerfer C, Muldoon JJ, Wang CH, Mazumder T, Sun Y, Goodman DB, Nyberg WA, Liu C, Allain V, Rothrock A, Ye CJ, Marson A, Shy BR, Eyquem J. SEED-Selection enables high-efficiency enrichment of primary T cells edited at multiple loci. Nat Biotechnol. 2025 Feb 05.  View on PubMed
  2. Arce MM, Umhoefer JM, Arang N, Kasinathan S, Freimer JW, Steinhart Z, Shen H, Pham MTN, Ota M, Wadhera A, Dajani R, Dorovskyi D, Chen YY, Liu Q, Zhou Y, Swaney DL, Obernier K, Shy BR, Carnevale J, Satpathy AT, Krogan NJ, Pritchard JK, Marson A. Central control of dynamic gene circuits governs T cell rest and activation. Nature. 2025 Jan; 637(8047):930-939.  View on PubMed
  3. Gupta S, Martinov T, Thelen A, Sunahara M, Mureli S, Vazquez A, Gerdts J, Dandekar R, Cortese I, Fouassier C, Schanzer E, Urnov FD, Marson A, Shy BR, Greenberg PD, Wilson MR. Antigen-Specific T Cell Receptor Discovery for Treating Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 04.  View on PubMed
  4. Pacalin NM, Steinhart Z, Shi Q, Belk JA, Dorovskyi D, Kraft K, Parker KR, Shy BR, Marson A, Chang HY. Bidirectional epigenetic editing reveals hierarchies in gene regulation. Nat Biotechnol. 2025 Mar; 43(3):355-368.  View on PubMed
  5. Shen K, Flood JJ, Zhang Z, Ha A, Shy BR, Dueber JE, Douglas SM. Engineering an Escherichia coli strain for production of long single-stranded DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Apr 24; 52(7):4098-4107.  View on PubMed
  6. Shen K, Flood JJ, Zhang Z, Ha A, Shy BR, Dueber JE, Douglas SM. Engineering an Escherichia coli strain for production of long single-stranded DNA. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 01.  View on PubMed
  7. Chang CR, Vykunta VS, Goodman DB, Muldoon JJ, Nyberg WA, Liu C, Allain V, Rothrock A, Wang CH, Marson A, Shy BR, Eyquem J. Ultra-high efficiency T cell reprogramming at multiple loci with SEED-Selection. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 07.  View on PubMed
  8. Schmidt R, Ward CC, Dajani R, Armour-Garb Z, Ota M, Allain V, Hernandez R, Layeghi M, Xing G, Goudy L, Dorovskyi D, Wang C, Chen YY, Ye CJ, Shy BR, Gilbert LA, Eyquem J, Pritchard JK, Dodgson SE, Marson A. Base-editing mutagenesis maps alleles to tune human T cell functions. Nature. 2024 Jan; 625(7996):805-812.  View on PubMed
  9. Foss DV, Muldoon JJ, Nguyen DN, Carr D, Sahu SU, Hunsinger JM, Wyman SK, Krishnappa N, Mendonsa R, Schanzer EV, Shy BR, Vykunta VS, Allain V, Li Z, Marson A, Eyquem J, Wilson RC. Peptide-mediated delivery of CRISPR enzymes for the efficient editing of primary human lymphocytes. Nat Biomed Eng. 2023 05; 7(5):647-660.  View on PubMed
  10. Lee J, Robinson ME, Sun R, Kume K, Ma N, Cosgun KN, Chan LN, Leveille E, Geng H, Vykunta VS, Shy BR, Marson A, Katz S, Chen J, Paietta E, Meffre E, Vaidehi N, Müschen M. Dynamic phosphatase-recruitment controls B-cell selection and oncogenic signaling. bioRxiv. 2023 Mar 15.  View on PubMed
  11. Goodman DB, Azimi CS, Kearns K, Talbot A, Garakani K, Garcia J, Patel N, Hwang B, Lee D, Park E, Vykunta VS, Shy BR, Ye CJ, Eyquem J, Marson A, Bluestone JA, Roybal KT. Pooled screening of CAR T cells identifies diverse immune signaling domains for next-generation immunotherapies. Sci Transl Med. 2022 11 09; 14(670):eabm1463.  View on PubMed
  12. Shy BR, Vykunta VS, Ha A, Talbot A, Roth TL, Nguyen DN, Pfeifer WG, Chen YY, Blaeschke F, Shifrut E, Vedova S, Mamedov MR, Chung JJ, Li H, Yu R, Wu D, Wolf J, Martin TG, Castro CE, Ye L, Esensten JH, Eyquem J, Marson A. High-yield genome engineering in primary cells using a hybrid ssDNA repair template and small-molecule cocktails. Nat Biotechnol. 2023 04; 41(4):521-531.  View on PubMed
  13. Holstein SA, Asimakopoulos F, Azab AK, Bianchi G, Bhutani M, Crews LA, Cupedo T, Giles H, Gooding S, Hillengass J, John L, Kaiser S, Lee L, Maclachlan K, Pasquini MC, Pichiorri F, Shah N, Shokeen M, Shy BR, Smith EL, Verona R, Usmani SZ, McCarthy PL. Proceedings from the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network Myeloma Intergroup Workshop on Immune and Cellular Therapy in Multiple Myeloma. Transplant Cell Ther. 2022 08; 28(8):446-454.  View on PubMed
  14. Lin-Shiao E, Pfeifer WG, Shy BR, Saffari Doost M, Chen E, Vykunta VS, Hamilton JR, Stahl EC, Lopez DM, Sandoval Espinoza CR, Deyanov AE, Lew RJ, Poirer MG, Marson A, Castro CE, Doudna JA. CRISPR-Cas9-mediated nuclear transport and genomic integration of nanostructured genes in human primary cells. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 02 22; 50(3):1256-1268.  View on PubMed
  15. Balcerek J, Shy BR, Putnam AL, Masiello LM, Lares A, Dekovic F, Acevedo L, Lee MR, Nguyen V, Liu W, Paruthiyil S, Xu J, Leinbach AS, Bluestone JA, Tang Q, Esensten JH. Polyclonal Regulatory T Cell Manufacturing Under cGMP: A Decade of Experience. Front Immunol. 2021; 12:744763.  View on PubMed
  16. Hamilton JR, Tsuchida CA, Nguyen DN, Shy BR, McGarrigle ER, Sandoval Espinoza CR, Carr D, Blaeschke F, Marson A, Doudna JA. Targeted delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 and transgenes enables complex immune cell engineering. Cell Rep. 2021 06 01; 35(9):109207.  View on PubMed
  17. Balcerek J, Trejo E, Levine K, Couey P, Kornberg ZV, Rogine C, Young C, Li PJ, Shy BR, Taylor JE, Bakhtary S, Friedlander T, Lynch KL, Bern C, Esensten JH. Hospital-Based Donor Recruitment and Predonation Serologic Testing for COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma. Am J Clin Pathol. 2021 Mar 15; 155(4):515-521.  View on PubMed
  18. Lynch KL, Whitman JD, Lacanienta NP, Beckerdite EW, Kastner SA, Shy BR, Goldgof GM, Levine AG, Bapat SP, Stramer SL, Esensten JH, Hightower AW, Bern C, Wu AHB. Magnitude and Kinetics of Anti-Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Antibody Responses and Their Relationship to Disease Severity. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 01 27; 72(2):301-308.  View on PubMed
  19. Ng DL, Goldgof GM, Shy BR, Levine AG, Balcerek J, Bapat SP, Prostko J, Rodgers M, Coller K, Pearce S, Franz S, Du L, Stone M, Pillai SK, Sotomayor-Gonzalez A, Servellita V, Martin CSS, Granados A, Glasner DR, Han LM, Truong K, Akagi N, Nguyen DN, Neumann NM, Qazi D, Hsu E, Gu W, Santos YA, Custer B, Green V, Williamson P, Hills NK, Lu CM, Whitman JD, Stramer SL, Wang C, Reyes K, Hakim JMC, Sujishi K, Alazzeh F, Pham L, Thornborrow E, Oon CY, Miller S, Kurtz T, Simmons G, Hackett J, Busch MP, Chiu CY. SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and neutralizing activity in donor and patient blood. Nat Commun. 2020 09 17; 11(1):4698.  View on PubMed
  20. Whitman JD, Hiatt J, Mowery CT, Shy BR, Yu R, Yamamoto TN, Rathore U, Goldgof GM, Whitty C, Woo JM, Gallman AE, Miller TE, Levine AG, Nguyen DN, Bapat SP, Balcerek J, Bylsma SA, Lyons AM, Li S, Wong AW, Gillis-Buck EM, Steinhart ZB, Lee Y, Apathy R, Lipke MJ, Smith JA, Zheng T, Boothby IC, Isaza E, Chan J, Acenas DD, Lee J, Macrae TA, Kyaw TS, Wu D, Ng DL, Gu W, York VA, Eskandarian HA, Callaway PC, Warrier L, Moreno ME, Levan J, Torres L, Farrington LA, Loudermilk RP, Koshal K, Zorn KC, Garcia-Beltran WF, Yang D, Astudillo MG, Bernstein BE, Gelfand JA, Ryan ET, Charles RC, Iafrate AJ, Lennerz JK, Miller S, Chiu CY, Stramer SL, Wilson MR, Manglik A, Ye CJ, Krogan NJ, Anderson MS, Cyster JG, Ernst JD, Wu AHB, Lynch KL, Bern C, Hsu PD, Marson A. Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serology assays reveals a range of test performance. Nat Biotechnol. 2020 10; 38(10):1174-1183.  View on PubMed

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