Elena Stoyanova, Ph.D. is a Senior Scientist in the Research and Development team at Touchlight working on the molecular development and ex vivo testing of  their emerging platforms. She specializes in the validation and optimization of Touchlight’s technologies for gene editing applications, with a focus on a novel circular single-stranded CRIPSR knock-in template — MegaBulb DNA (mbDNATM). She joined the company in August 2020, shortly after finishing a PhD in Epigenetics and Chromatin Dynamics at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, where she studied metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone modifications. Elena has a BSc in Genetics from the University of York, UK.