Francisco Sánchez-Rivera, PhD profile page

Assistant Professor

at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Francisco Sánchez-Rivera is an assistant professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His group studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which genes and disease-predisposing mutations influence the development of diseases like cancer. To do so, they are applying CRISPR-based methods to engineer mutations with high efficiency and precision in cells and tissues of living animals to quantitatively interrogate cancer variants at scale and pave the way for novel therapeutic strategies.

Areas of Expertise

Cancer Biology

Cancer Genetics

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Microscopic view of stained cancer cells used in research for cell line development.

Article

Harnessing Cell Lines To Advance Cancer Research and Treatment

This article examines some of the cell-based approaches that researchers are using to study acquired drug resistance and the effects of specific genetic variants on cancer cell physiology.