Justin McDonough

Justin is Associate Director of the Cellular Engineering Service at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), where he leads a high-throughput iPSC genome engineering program and other stem cell-based initiatives. He earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a career focused on genetic engineering and advanced cellular models. Justin has extensive expertise in precision CRISPR editing and rigorous genomic QC. He collaborated to establish a scalable pipeline for engineering hiPSCs at JAX, including the iNDI resource, enabling the generation of complex, disease-relevant models for global distribution.