Amita Tiyaboonchai, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the Pape Family Pediatric Research Institute in OHSU's Department of Pediatrics. Her research interests are in gene and cell therapy in the liver as well as gene editing.

Gene therapy is often limited by the low efficiency of the targeting approach, which results in only a small population of cells which have the therapeutic edit. Dr.Tiyaboonchai's research focuses on methods of selective expansion of gene-edited hepatocytes in vivo for the purpose of enabling a therapeutic cell threshold to be reached with liver-directed gene and cell therapy approaches.

Dr. Tiyaboonchai completed her graduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 focusing on stem cell biology of the pancreatic development. She then joined OHSU as a postdoctoral fellow in the Pape Research Institute and became research assistant professor in the same department in 2021.