Kris Saha

Krishanu Saha is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Pediatrics, and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds the Retina Research Foundation Kathryn and Latimer Murfee Chair at the McPherson Eye Research Institute. His lab, located at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, focuses on gene editing of the retina and cell therapy production through genome editing. Dr. Saha earned his degrees from Cornell University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Branco-Weiss fellow at MIT's Whitehead Institute and Harvard University. He has published over 100 scientific manuscripts, filed several patents, and received numerous awards, including the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Rising Star Award. In 2024, Dr. Saha was recognized as one of the top 10 scientists in therapeutic gene editing by STAT’s “Who to Know” list. He has co-led large collaborative efforts in cell and gene therapy, including the NSF Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT) and the NIH Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) Consortium. Additionally, Dr. Saha serves on several national and institutional oversight committees related to genome editing and ethics and is actively working to advance therapeutic genome editing programs into clinical trials.