Affiliation: Clemson University

Dr. Renee Cottle is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Clemson University. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University in 2015. She completed a T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular Research at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2016 and started her faculty position at Clemson in August 2016. Her expertise is in gene editing, gene therapy, and nonviral delivery strategies. Dr. Cottle’s research group develops cell-based gene therapy technologies and point-of-care devices to improve the lives of patients with inherited metabolic diseases. An important area of research in the Cottle lab is to develop nonviral approaches to deliver CRISPR-Cas reagents into primary hepatocytes ex vivo using electroporation and lipid nanoparticles.