Dr. Hal Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., is the Founder of Blade Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. serves as Member of Scientific Advisory Board of VIRxSYS Corporation and Blade Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Dietz is expertise in Molecular Biology. As a physician scientist, he has dedicated his entire career to the care and study of individuals with heritable connective tissue disorders with primary perturbations of extracellular matrix homeostasis and function. His lab has identified the genes for many of these conditions, for which he uses model systems to elucidate disease mechanisms. He is a Victor A. McKusick Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Molecular Biology & Genetics in the Institute of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Dietz has received multiple prestigious awards including the Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics, the Colonel Harland Sanders Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics, the Taubman Prize for excellence in translational medical science, the Harrington Prize from the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Harrington Discovery Institute, the Pasarow Award in Cardiovascular Research, the InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize from the country of Belgium and the Research Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. He is an inductee of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of American Physicians, National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Hal Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., is the Founder of Blade Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. serves as Member of Scientific Advisory Board of VIRxSYS Corporation and Blade Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Dietz is expertise in Molecular Biology. As a physician scientist, he has dedicated his entire career to the care and study of individuals with heritable connective tissue disorders with primary perturbations of extracellular matrix homeostasis and function. His lab has identified the genes for many of these conditions, for which he uses model systems to elucidate disease mechanisms. He is a Victor A. McKusick Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Molecular Biology & Genetics in the Institute of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Dietz has received multiple prestigious awards including the Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics, the Colonel Harland Sanders Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics, the Taubman Prize for excellence in translational medical science, the Harrington Prize from the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Harrington Discovery Institute, the Pasarow Award in Cardiovascular Research, the InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize from the country of Belgium and the Research Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. He is an inductee of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of American Physicians, National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences.

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