Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003; Ph.D., Caltech, 2011; M.D., University of California Los Angeles, 2013; Visiting Associate, Caltech, 2017-18; Research Assistant Professor, 2018; Assistant Professor, 2018-; HMRI Investigator, 2021-.
The Van Valen group studies how living systems and their respective viruses encode and decode information about their internal state and their environment by combining ideas from cell biology and physics with recent advances in imaging, machine learning, and genomics to make novel measurements.
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