Jacob Lynn, PhD

Jacob Lynn, PhD, is a VGM postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics with Dr. Wei-Qi Wei as his mentor. He received his PhD from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 2024, where his retinal organoid model demonstrated successful rescue of a CRISPRcorrected pathogenic variant in the gene PRPH2. While at the Dean McGee Eye Institute, he trained as a clinical study coordinator for the NAC Attack trial and founded the Oklahoma Chapter of Foundation Fighting Blindness, serving as President.