Keerthana Shankar

Vertex fellow in cell and gene therapy

Role
Vertex Fellow, Cell and Gene Therapy at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Location
Cambridge, MA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Keerthana Shankar

Rigorous scientist with experience in CRISPR-based cell and gene therapy, mRNA…

Experience

  1. Vertex Fellow, Cell and Gene Therapy

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals

    Sep 2025 — Present · Boston, MA, US

Education

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

    2019 — 2024

  • Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Engineering

    Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

    2015 — 2019

Skills

  • Writing Abstracts
  • Leadership
  • Immunofluorescence
  • Graphpad Prism
  • Research
  • Mentoring
  • Presentations
  • Electrospinning
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • Cell Culture
  • Design of Experiments
  • Imagej
  • Data Analysis
  • Microscopy
  • Public Speaking
  • Matlab
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (Qpcr)
  • Western Blotting
  • Statistics

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