Chris Zou
Hey, I'm Chris. I am a Member of Technical Staff at LatchBio and a PhD student at Stanford Genetics fortunate to be advised by Dr. Anshul Kundaje. I am interested in systems that enable us to model and engineer the physical world, especially biology.
Previously, I worked at Edison Scientific/FutureHouse and Datavant in engineering roles. I studied CS and Biochemistry at Berkeley, where I founded Health Engine and was part of the Accel Scholars program.
If you would like to collaborate or if there's any way I can help you, please reach out at cwzou [at] stanford [dot] edu.
Updates
- [3/11/2026] alphagenome-pytorch, a PyTorch port of AlphaGenome, is out for public use.
- [2/27/2026] PantheonOS's first version has been released as a preprint. Check out Pantheon-Evolve!
- [11/05/2025] Excited to share that Kosmos and Edison Analysis have been released!
- [06/03/2025] Excited to work at FutureHouse for the summer.
- [05/20/2025] I'm starting my PhD in Genetics at Stanford in the fall!
- [02/25/2025] Our paper on epigenetic therapy in GBM is out in Neuro-Oncology.
- [10/07/2024] In vivo perturb-seq published in Genome Biology.
Research
We show that transient delivery of a site-specific epigenetic memory editor can induce stable, complete, and multiplexed suppression of target genes for therapeutic application in GBM.
We developed the first in vivo perturb-seq platform in intact tumors, providing a target discovery and data generation tool.
Fun stuff
Bookshelf
Abundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
The Power Broker, Robert Caro
An Immense World, Ed Yong
Material World, James Conway
more...