Sam Sgrizzi (she/her) is a graduate student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program at the University of Washington and Fred Hutch. As an undergrad at Boston University, Sam conducted biochemical research at BU’s Cytoskeleton and Signaling Lab, but later became interested in genome engineering and biotechnology. She spent a year at Boston-based startup Accure Health, helping design nano vesicle-based biomarker assays. Afterwards, Sam joined the Abudayyah-Gootenberg Lab at Harvard Medical School, where she developed programmable tools for gene editing and RNA sensing. In the Srivatsan Lab, Sam is now exploring microfluidics-based gene synthesis and single-cell genomics.
