Dr. Porteus is an Associate Clinical Professor and attends at the
Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital where he takes care of pediatric
patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. He
completed his combined MD, PhD at Stanford Medical School, and residency
in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital. For his fellowship and
postdoctoral research, he applied homologous recombination as a strategy
to correct disease causing mutations in stem cells as definitive and
curative therapy for children with genetic diseases of the blood,
particularly sickle cell disease. His research program continues to
focus on developing genome editing by homologous recombination as
curative therapy for children with genetic diseases but also has
interests in the clonal dynamics of heterogeneous populations and the
use of genome editing to better understand musculoskeletal diseases.
