Rachel Silverstein PhD

Rachel Silverstein is a Biswas Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She recently completed her PhD at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, and works at the intersection of genome editing and machine learning. Her research aims to make genome-editing technologies safer, more effective, and more customized for specific genomic mutations. Silverstein applies computational methods to large DNA and RNA sequence datasets, seeking to understand better how biological function is encoded in genomic sequences. During her fellowship at MIT in the lab of Yunha Hwang, she plans to explore RNA-guided systems beyond CRISPR, potentially uncovering new tools for research and therapeutics.