Cameron Myhrvold was the Diagnostics Group Lead in the Sabeti Lab. Along with a talented team in the lab, he developed Cas13-based technologies for viral detection and destruction. In January 2021, Cameron will join the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University as an Assistant Professor.
In 2016, Cameron completed a PhD in Systems Biology PhD at Harvard University. At Harvard, Cameron was jointly advised by Pamela Silver and Peng Yin. He worked at the interface of synthetic biology and nucleic acid nanotechnology, and organized proteins inside of living cells using programmable scaffolds. He also used synthetic structures for applications such as counting cell divisions. In 2011, Cameron received an A.B. from Princeton University, majoring in molecular biology with a certificate in quantitative and computational biology. At Princeton, Cameron studied the evolution of quorum sensing under Bonnie Bassler. Cameron was awarded a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship in 2011 to support his graduate studies. Cameron was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for 2019.