After watching Jurassic Park in fifth grade, Greg Newby wrote an essay for school about his aspiration to become a genetic engineer and bring back the dinosaurs. But instead of creating prehistoric creatures, he became a different kind of genetic engineer — one who develops genome editing technologies to treat genetic diseases.
As an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, Newby initially wavered between majors in engineering, computer science, and biology. His first research experience studying Drosophila and bacteriophage during his freshman year cemented his appreciation for laboratory research and he decided to pursue molecular biology.
