Georg Seelig

Faculty Member BIIE / Chris and Heidi Stolte Endowed Professor, University of Washington

Prof. Georg Seelig is a Faculty Member at the Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering. He is also the Chris and Heidi Stolte Endowed Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. Georg's research focuses on decoding and engineering gene regulatory mechanisms through the combination of high-throughput experimental approaches and machine learning. His group has pioneered methods for reading and writing cis-regulatory codes and developed innovative tools for single cell analysis. At BIIE, his work addresses critical challenges in systems and synthetic immunology, including mapping immune responses, enhancing mRNA vaccine specificity, and creating targeted therapeutics. Georg has received numerous prestigious awards and co-founded Parse Biosciences, a single cell RNA sequencing company.