Jared Toettcher is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and the Deputy Director of the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute at Princeton University. He completed a PhD in Biological Engineering in 2009 under Bruce Tidor (MIT) and Galit Lahav (Harvard Medical School) and a Cancer Research Institute postdoctoral fellow with Wendell Lim and Orion Weiner at UC San Francisco. Dr. Toettcher’s research focuses on dissecting how signaling pathways work together to orchestrate complex cell decision-making and developing new tools to control molecular processes in living cells.
Currently, his work focuses on how growth factor signaling pathways control developmental cell fates, how signal processing is altered between cellular contexts (e.g., normal vs cancer cells), and how to build light-sensitive proteins to control these processes. Dr. Toettcher’s honors and awards include being named a 2019 Vallee Scholar and receiving a 2018 James A. Elkins Preceptorship, a 2018 NSF CAREER Award, and a 2016 NIH Director's New Innovator Award.