Cassandra L. Smith
	Cassandra L. Smith is Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biology and Pharmacology and Deputy Director for the Center for Advanced Biotechnology at Boston University. She received her Ph. D. in genetics at Texas A and M University in 1973. She has served on the faculty of Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley and was Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory prior to joining the faculty at Boston University. Currently, she is Chief Editor of Biomolecular Engineering published by Elsevier in the Netherlands, founder of Daxx, a start up biotechnology company based on a recently developed DNA fingerprint technology. She is the co-author of a recent published textbook entitled "Genomics: The science and technology behind the human genome project" Her current research interest are focused on the development and application of comparative genomic method for studying DNA changes in twins both as an alternative to positional cloning experiments for disease genes and to understand development and ageing. Another focus is on targeting cells, e. g. tumour cells, in vivo using DNA mimics of antibodies and designing and constructing DNA and protein scaffolds for a variety of molecular engineering type purposes.
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