Wendell A. Lim PhD

Wendell Lim is a Professor and Director of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California San Francisco. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wendell Lim is interested in understanding how genetically encoded molecular programs can yield the remarkable regulatory behaviors observed in biological organisms, at multiple scales. They utilize a mechanistic understanding of molecules as a foundation to study how systems of interacting molecules assemble to yield cellular or organismal signaling behaviors and complex behaviors in both space and time. His lab is interested in both the fundamental principles governing these molecular programs, as well as the way such programs have evolved. They use synthetic biology as an approach to systematically understand the design principles of molecular networks, as well as an approach to engineering cells with useful designed behaviors, such as therapeutic immune cells that are custom programmed to recognize and treat cancer or other diseases.