Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Director Primary Organization 1859
Location La Jolla, California, United States Regions Greater San Diego Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Devon Cayer is the Co-Founder and Director at 1859. Devon has trained as a synthetic and supramolecular chemist under the guidance of Fraser Stoddart and molecular biology under the guidance of Ann Hirsch at University of California, Los Angeles. Devon’s Ph.D thesis work on the manipulation of proteins and nucleic acids with Reza Ghadiri at The
Scripps Research Institute allowed him to develop methodologies for the programmatic control of enzymatic activity using protein-oligonucleotides conjugates. Devon demonstrated that programmable control of enzymatic activity could be directly targeted on the surface of living cells. Devon’s interest lies in the improving the targeting specificity of cancer therapeutics using combinatorial engineering.
