Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Associate Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Affiliate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Associate Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Guerra, I., Jensen, K., & Perez-Pinera, P. (2025). Implementation of an Undergraduate Laboratory-Based Mammalian Genome Editing Course. CRISPR Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2025.0017

Miskalis, A., Shirguppe, S., Winter, J., Elias, G., Swami, D., Nambiar, A., Stilger, M., Woods, W. S., Gosstola, N., Gapinske, M., Zeballos, A., Moore, H., Maslov, S., Gaj, T., & Perez-Pinera, P. (2024). SPLICER: a highly efficient base editing toolbox that enables in vivo therapeutic exon skipping. Nature communications, 15(1), Article 10354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54529-y

Perez-Pinera, P., & Gaj, T. (2024). Editorial overview: The next-generation of genome editing: The future is now. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 30, Article 100522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobme.2024.100522

Gapinske, M., Winter, J., Swami, D., Gapinske, L., Woods, W. S., Shirguppe, S., Miskalis, A., Busza, A., Joulani, D., Kao, C. J., Kostan, K., Bigot, A., Bashir, R., & Perez-Pinera, P. (2023). Targeting Duchenne muscular dystrophy by skipping DMD exon 45 with base editors. Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids, 33, 572-586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtn.2023.07.029

Kim, S., Yuan, J. B., Woods, W. S., Newton, D. A., Perez-Pinera, P., & Song, J. S. (2023). Chromatin structure and context-dependent sequence features control prime editing efficiency. Frontiers in Genetics, 14, Article 1222112. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2023.1222112

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