Brian Belmont

Brian Belmont

Greater Seattle Area
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I am a biological engineer aiming to build technologies and processes to accelerate…

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  • Modulus Therapeutics Graphic

    Modulus Therapeutics

    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Boston, MA

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    Boston, MA

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    Cambridge, MA

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    Cambridge, MA

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    South San Francisco, CA

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    Stanford, CA

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graphic

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    Activities and Societies: SynBERC East Coast Synthetic Biology Working Group (Coordinator), International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) mentor, Dept. of Biological Engineering student board, elective courses within the Sloan School of Business

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    Activities and Societies: Stanford Solar Car Project, elective courses within the School of Engineering

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Patents

  • Single cell characterization using affinity-oligonucleotide conjugates and vessel barcoded polynucleotides

    Issued US11156611B2

    Provided herein are methods and compositions for single cell characterization using affinity-oligonucleotide conjugates. In some aspects, such methods may comprise attaching a first vessel barcoded polynucleotide to an oligonucleotide portion of an affinity-oligonucleotide conjugate, which binds to a target antigen expressed by a single cell that is isolated in a single vessel. In some aspects, the oligonucleotide portion of the affinity-oligonucleotide conjugate may comprise an antigen…

    Provided herein are methods and compositions for single cell characterization using affinity-oligonucleotide conjugates. In some aspects, such methods may comprise attaching a first vessel barcoded polynucleotide to an oligonucleotide portion of an affinity-oligonucleotide conjugate, which binds to a target antigen expressed by a single cell that is isolated in a single vessel. In some aspects, the oligonucleotide portion of the affinity-oligonucleotide conjugate may comprise an antigen identification sequence (AID). In some aspects, the oligonucleotide portion of the affinity-oligonucleotide conjugate may further comprise an affinity molecular barcode (AMB) sequence. In some aspects, such methods may further comprise lysing the single cell and attaching a second vessel barcoded polynucleotide to a cell polynucleotide from the single cell.

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  • Affinity-oligonucleotide conjugates and uses thereof

    Issued US11061030B2

    Provided herein are methods and compositions for single cell characterization using affinity-oligonucleotide conjugates. Provided herein are methods and compositions for single cell charaterization using tetramer-oligonucleotide conjugates.

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  • High throughput process for t cell receptor target identification of natively-paired t cell receptor sequences

    Issued 10,928,392

    Provided herein are methods and composition for high-throughput T-cell receptor target identification of natively paired T-cell receptor sequences.

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  • Methods of selecting T cell receptors using affinity oligonucleotide conjugates

    Issued US 10,393,743

    Provided herein are methods and compositions for single cell characterization using affinity-oligonucleotide conjugates, including tetramer-oligonucleotide conjugates (e.g., pMHC-oligonucleotide). In some aspects, such methods may comprise the steps of: forming a vessel comprising an affinity-oligonucleotide conjugate and a T cell; attaching a vessel barcoded polynucleotide or complement thereof to: (a) an oligonucleotide portion of a pMHC-oligonucleotide conjugate, and (b) a T cell receptor…

    Provided herein are methods and compositions for single cell characterization using affinity-oligonucleotide conjugates, including tetramer-oligonucleotide conjugates (e.g., pMHC-oligonucleotide). In some aspects, such methods may comprise the steps of: forming a vessel comprising an affinity-oligonucleotide conjugate and a T cell; attaching a vessel barcoded polynucleotide or complement thereof to: (a) an oligonucleotide portion of a pMHC-oligonucleotide conjugate, and (b) a T cell receptor (TCR) polynucleotide originating from the T cell; and sequencing the oligonucleotide portion or a complement thereof and the TCR polynucleotide or a complement thereof. Additional methods provided herein include determining the binding affinity of a T cell receptor (TCR) to a pMHC-oligonucleotide. Compositions of the present invention encompass a plurality of vessels, wherein a vessel of the plurality of vessels may comprise a single T cell; and a vessel barcoded polynucleotide, wherein the vessel may further comprise a pMHC-oligonucleotide conjugate.

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  • HPV-SPECIFIC BINDING MOLECULES

    Filed US WO/2019/070541

    Provided are binding molecules, such as TCRs or antigen binding fragments thereof and antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, such as those that recognize or bind human papilloma virus (HPV) 16, including HPV 16 E6 and HPV 16 E7. Also provided are engineered cells containing such binding molecules, compositions containing the binding molecules or engineered cells, and methods of treatment, such as administration of the binding molecules, engineered cells, or compositions.

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  • SINGLE AMPLICON ACTIVATED EXCLUSION PCR

    Filed US WO/2017/053903

    Provided herein are methods and compositions for activated amplification of a single template polynucleotide molecule, such as for cell barcoding and DNA sequencing.

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  • Post-transcriptional regulation of RNA-related processes using encoded protein-binding RNA aptamers

    Issued US 9125931

    In vitro SELEX has been used to discover high affinity RNA aptamers interacting with the tetracycline repressor protein in a tetracycline-dependent manner. Using in silico RNA folding predictions to guide the design of both aptamer truncations and mutants, minimized tetracycline repressor protein high affinity binding aptamers have been defined. Using one such aptamer, inducible post-transcriptional regulation in vivo has been demonstrated that is predicated on a direct interaction between a…

    In vitro SELEX has been used to discover high affinity RNA aptamers interacting with the tetracycline repressor protein in a tetracycline-dependent manner. Using in silico RNA folding predictions to guide the design of both aptamer truncations and mutants, minimized tetracycline repressor protein high affinity binding aptamers have been defined. Using one such aptamer, inducible post-transcriptional regulation in vivo has been demonstrated that is predicated on a direct interaction between a tetracycline repressor protein and a RNA aptamer element. These aptamer components can be integrated in any organism to inducibly regulate RNA translation of a gene of interest.

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  • Antibodies and chimeric antigen receptors specific for receptor tyrosine kinase like orphan receptor 1 (ror1)

    Filed WO2020160050A1

    Provided are receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1)-binding molecules, in particular, to human antibodies specific for ROR1, including antibody fragments. The present disclosure further relates to recombinant receptors, including chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that contain such antibodies or fragments, and polynucleotides that encode the antibodies, antigen-binding fragments or receptors specific for ROR1. The disclosure further relates to genetically engineered cells…

    Provided are receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1)-binding molecules, in particular, to human antibodies specific for ROR1, including antibody fragments. The present disclosure further relates to recombinant receptors, including chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that contain such antibodies or fragments, and polynucleotides that encode the antibodies, antigen-binding fragments or receptors specific for ROR1. The disclosure further relates to genetically engineered cells, containing such ROR1 -binding proteins and receptors, and related methods and uses thereof in adoptive cell therapy.

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Honors & Awards

  • Momenta Presidential Graduate Fellow, MIT

    MIT

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