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Young Investigator Profile: Jonathan Karr

Model of the System
Feb 16, 2015
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Ciara Curtin

Fellow, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Recommended by Eric Schadt, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – When Jonathan Karr was finishing college, systems biology was taking off and becoming popular. As a senior, he took a systems biology class and was hooked.

"I just really loved the course and the approach to biology — there was a sort of logical, mathematical, and physical way of thinking about biological systems to generate predictions," Karr told GenomeWeb. 

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