Ben Kleinstiver is an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His laboratory is focused on developing and applying protein engineering methods to improve genome editing technologies. He received his Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University of Western Ontario, and completed his postdoctoral studies at MGH and HMS. The major goals of the research in his laboratory are to address limitations of existing technologies, to develop new capabilities that will help solve important research questions in the genome editing field, all with the hope of providing safe and effective treatments for patients.