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Identifying causal variants with CRISPR editing in primary human cells

Yuriy Baglaenko

Cincinnati Children's Hospital (CCHMC), Ohio

Presentation Date: 3 February 2026 2nd speaker

Yuriy is an Assistant Professor working at the intersection of immunology, genetics and genomics. His group at CCHMC builds new approaches to unlock the mysteries of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The research is a mixture of experimental and computational work that generates and analyzes large-scale genomic datasets. Yuriy obtained his PhD at the University of Toronto in the Department of Immunology and completed his postdoctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in affiliation with Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

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