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Luciano Marraffini is an Assistant Professor of Bacteriology at Rockefeller University. Luciano’s laboratory investigates the underlying molecular mechanisms of CRISPR immunity, and seeks to employ this natural pathway to develop new technologies.

He is a 2012 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar and the recipient of a 2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Luciano received his PhD from the University of Chicago where he studied bacterial pathogenesis, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University.