Jose-Carlos (JC) Gutiérrez-Ramos, CEO of Cogen Therapeutics Jose-Carlos (JC) Gutiérrez-Ramos is CEO of Cogen Therapeutics and brings over 20 years of drug discovery and development experience from leading global biopharmaceutical companies. Previously, he was the CEO and president of Synlogic, Inc. where he led the company through raising more than $200MM [...]
Amor Menezes, Assistant Professor at University of Florida Amor Menezes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, an affiliate of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, an affiliate of the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and a member of the Institute for Cell & Tissue Science and Engineering at [...]
Xavier Duportet, CEO of Eligo Bioscience. Xavier Duportet cofounded Eligo Bioscience in 2014, while doing his PhD in Synthetic Biology at MIT and INRIA. He raised $24M from Khosla Ventures and Seventure to develop a new generation of ultra-precise biotherapeutics to battle antibiotic-resistant bacteria and sculpt our microbiome using genetic engineering [...]
Elliot Roth, Founder of Spira Elliot Roth is the founder of Spira, a company that grows microalgae locally as a nutritional product. Roth holds a degree in biomedical engineering and was trained at the Stanford School in catalyzing entrepreneurial communities through the University Innovation Fellows Program. He is a Kairos Fellow [...]
Una Ryan, Founder of ULUX Una Ryan is the Founder of ULUX LLC, a science-to-art company exploring the unity of intracellular and extraterrestrial spaces. Dr. Ryan is an investor, chiefly focused on women-led ventures while targeting above-market investment returns. She is an LP in Breakout Ventures, Managing Director Golden Seeds (Silicon [...]
Adeline Seah, founder of Biodiversity Connections. A biologist exploring creative methods for wildlife conservation and science education, she is the founder of Biodiversity Connections, a non-profit dedicated to building transdisciplinary and transnational collaborations between different conservation stakeholders to study and protect wildlife in Southeast Asia. Working with artists, scientists, hackers, anyone [...]
Ajit Sapre, Group President, Reliance Industries Limited. Ajit has more than 35 years of experience in the petroleum refining and petrochemicals business, technology development and management. He received his PhD from the University of Delaware and MBA from Cornell University. His experience includes technical and managerial assignments in research, engineering, licensing, [...]
Jacob Glanville, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Distributed Bio. Jacob Glanville is an Entrepreneur and Computational Immuno-Engineer. He developed the core business model, the research teams, and the technologies that enabled Distributed Bio to become profitable without investment. He has developed multiple seminal methods in the fields of high-throughput antibody [...]
Jason Kelly, Co-founder and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks Jason Kelly is the co-founder and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks. Ginkgo genetically engineers “made-to-order” microbes for customers in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food, and energy industries. The company recently raised over $430M in venture capital to expand their automated genetic engineering foundries and has [...]
Karin Strauss, Principal Researcher at Microsoft. Karin Strauss is a senior researcher at Microsoft and an affiliate faculty at University of Washington. Her research spans computer architecture, systems, and biology, and her focus is on scaling technologies to push the IT industry forward. Most recently, she has been investigating the use [...]
