Andrew Webster, PhD
Lee Hood Systems Fellow
Heath Lab
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Andrew Webster is a Lee Hood Systems Fellow at ISB, working with Dr. James R. Heath’s lab.
Andrew obtained his PhD in Biosciences at The Rockefeller University, working under Dr. Agata Smogorzewska. Following chemical and computational antibiotic development research during his undergraduate tenure, his breakthrough PhD work elucidated the fundamental genomic mechanisms driving cancer development and somatic mutagenesis upon disruption of interstrand-crosslink DNA repair. This work provided the first genomic underpinning of how DNA-crosslinking metabolites from smoking and alcohol specifically drive mucosal tumors such as head & neck, oesophageal, and lung cancers.
Andrew’s work at ISB focuses on the development of multi-modal, next-generation therapeutic platforms to treat chronic & acute disease.
PhD, Biosciences, The Rockefeller University, 2022
BHSc, Biomedical Sciences Specialization, McMaster University, 2015
- Genomics & Multi-Omics
- Cancer Biology
- Synthetic Biology
- Chemical Biology
- Immunology
- Therapeutic Bioengineering
- High-Throughput Screening Design