About: Fyodor Urnov
Fyodor Dmitriyevich Urnov (Russian: Фёдор Дми́триевич Урнов; born 1968) is Russian-born biomedical researcher and who has played a leading role in the field of genome editing. He is a Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Center for Translational Genomics at the university's . In 2005 Urnov and his colleagues coined the term "genome editing" and demonstrated the first use of ZFNs to edit DNA in human cells. Urnov is considered a pioneering figure in the field of genome editing and his work has been cited widely.
