Cameron Myhrvold, PhD

Cameron Myhrvold is a postdoctoral fellow in the Sabeti lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Cameron is developing Cas13-based technologies for viral detection and destruction. In 2016, Cameron completed a PhD in Systems Biology PhD at Harvard University, jointly advised by Pamela Silver and Peng Yin, working at the interface of synthetic biology and nucleic acid nanotechnology. In 2011, Cameron received an A.B. from Princeton University, majoring in molecular biology with a certificate in quantitative and computational biology. He was awarded a Hertz Fellowship by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation to support his graduate studies and was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for 2019.

In January 2021, Cameron will be joining the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University as an Assistant Professor.