Sergiy Velychko

Sergiy Velychko is a postdoc in the lab of George Church at Harvard Medical School, focusing on synthetic developmental biology. He studied Biology and Biotechnology at Kyiv National University, then pursued a Master’s degree in Molecular Bioengineering from the Technical University of Dresden. His thesis focused on the genetic engineering of human iPSCs for disease correction. Sergiy continued his research in the department of Hans Schöler at the Max Planck Institute in Münster, where he defended his PhD on Oct4’s role in pluripotency. Sergiy’s cover article in Cell Stem Cell was recognized with the “Best Publication of the Year Award” from the German Stem Cell Network. His recent contributions include the development of an enhanced Yamanaka factor, super-SOX, and elucidating the mechanism of naïve pluripotency.