
Samira Kiani
@samira_kiani1
Passionate about bridging science and society using art. A film producer and university professor, founder of tomorrow.life; opinions are my own.
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Ep. 6 of the #MakePeopleBetterPodcast is up: bit.ly/3A1Lwa8. The tech companies driving the #genomicrevolution are modeling themselves after their predecessors in #SiliconValley. This week we joined Gaymon Bennett of Arizona State University and Barry Brown of human(Ethos). Listen & review!



Make People Better Community was recently named the best science documentary of 2023 at the DOCVILLE Filmfest in #belgium. Learn more here docville.be/page/76 This is a great honor for me. Thank you! Antonio Regalado Andrew Hessel george church MIT Technology Review Samira Kiani @cookdeegan

Ep. 7 of the Make People Better Podcast is out! How is it that we often set out to create the world we see in #sciencefiction? Hosts Samira Kiani and Cody Sheehy speak w/Robert Cooper, writer & producer of #Stargate. Listen here: lnkd.in/dXdrXihU #gattaca #bladerunner


“I was controlling Cas9 and the guide RNA. What if I could use these tools to build safety and controllability into CRISPR-based #GeneTherapy?” Samira Kiani University of Pittsburgh told Stephanie DeMarco, PhD about her efforts to make #CRISPR safer. ow.ly/HbEa50OpyLv

Your favorite poster presenter is here🙋🏻♀️😅 So excited to do a poster presentation on my PhD project titled as “Enhanced Zinc-finger based epigenetic modulator as next generation immunosuppressant”🤩 (study by kiani lab Samira Kiani ) at Pitt school of medicine retreat.


Few FDA-approved #AAV gene therapies exist. On June 29 @ 1:30PM EST, Dawn Bowles Duke University School of Medicine, Samira Kiani University of Pittsburgh, David Shaffer UC Berkeley, and Weidong Xiao Indiana University will discuss strategies for making safe and effective AAV gene therapies. ow.ly/NBET50Oy9Ga

it's a pleasure to share our lab preprint on “Modelling Human Post-Implantation Development via Extra-Embryonic Niche Engineering” ! It is timely considering recent works reported from labs of Zernicka-Goetz Lab Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا ISSCR #ISSCR2023. See below. I hope you will enjoy the work!


Since the discovery of CRISPR-Cas systems, people have wondered if a similar type of system exists in eukaryotes. Today, we report in nature the characterization of Fanzor, a eukaryotic RNA-guided system that can be reprogrammed for human genome editing. nature.com/articles/s4158…

9/x This work was led by postdocs Makoto Saito and Peiyu Xu in collaboration with Guilhem Faure , S. Maguire, Soumya Kannan, Han Altae-Tran, S. Vo & A. Desimone. Congratulations on a beautiful and comprehensive study!

Fun time in lab <Yuda’sBD yu xiang )>- blessed to be around so many talented people ! #Academic life has so much fun, everyday of it is exploring the unknown and learning about life at many scales!@MONASERT Joshua Hislop Tahere Mokhtari Samira Kiani Ryan LeGraw Armin Aryannejad, MD



The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing | The New Yorker danagoodyear great read. Thanks. Please check out Make People Better Community the film and the podcast. Your article resonates well with the film and the story we told there. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Amazing night & a fun lab gathering (Ebrahimkhanilab | U Pitt) to watch the wonderful docu-thriller “make people better” Make People Better Community 🧬🧫 Special thanks to Samira Kiani & Mo Ebrahimkhani for making it happen.



Dear #STEM community and Academic Chatter™ community, how does space of your lab make you feel? Will you be willing to fill out this short questionnaire? forms.gle/gnYotPfmSF8d8j… Where would you rather work?The PostDocs Forum Association for Women in Science Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) Outreach

Dear #STEM community, have you ever paid for a life or success coach? If so, can you please DM me? I have a few questions on what motivated you and what criteria you used. Thank you. Association for Women in Science The PostDocs Forum
