Matthew Hebden Porteus is Sutardja Chuk Professor of Definitive and Curative Medicine at

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. In 2003, as a postdoctoral fellow in

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's lab at the

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, Porteus was the first to demonstrate precise

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in human cells using

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s. He graduated

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from

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and completed his MD and PhD at

. For his post-doctoral work he trained with David Baltimore at

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and

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. He is a scientific founder of

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and an academic founder of Graphite Bio. He has an

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of 69 according to

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