Draft:Jason Moffat

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Jason Moffat
NationalityCanadian
Alma materQueen's University, University of Toronto
Known forDeveloping Toronto Knockout (TKO) CRISPR gRNA library
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular genetics, Functional genomics
InstitutionsThe University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)

Jason Moffat is a Canadian geneticist and cancer scientist at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[1]

Moffat is known for the development of Canada's first genome-wide CRISPR gRNA lentiviral library called the Toronto KnockOut (TKO) for functional genomic screening of human cells, targeting all human coding genes.[2]

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  1. ^ "SickKids scientists Drs. Daniela Rotin and Jason Moffat named Royal Society of Canada Fellows". The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto). Retrieved September 5, 2023.
  2. ^ Hart T, et al. (2015). "High-Resolution CRISPR Screens Reveal Fitness Genes and Genotype-Specific Cancer Liabilities". Cell. 163 (6): 1515–1526. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.015. PMID 26627737.

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