Steering Committee
Keith Yamamoto
Dr. Keith R. Yamamoto is vice chancellor for science policy and strategy, director of precision medicine, and professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF. After earning his PhD from […]
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Dr. India Hook-Barnard is Chief Executive Officer of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC). Her primary interests are in the areas of synthetic biology, precision medicine, responsible innovation, and biosecurity. […]
More →Lauren Junker
Dr. Lauren Junker is an innovation scout for Industrial Biotechnology Research at BASF. She has been a leader in the Industrial Biotechnology research group at BASF for the past 7 […]
More →Michael Koepke
Michael is a pioneer in genetic engineering and strain development of gas fermenting organisms to convert carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide to useful products. His research on Clostridium ljungdahlii demonstrated […]
More →Rebecca Nugent
Rebecca is an experienced R&D executive focused on commercializing research in the biotech industry enabling applications such as cell & gene therapies, synthetic biology and genomics. Dr. Nugent is currently […]
More →Kevin Solomon
Dr. Kevin Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. His work studies animal microbiomes to develop novel microbial platforms for sustainable biomanufacturing […]
More →Kate Adamala
Kate Adamala is a biochemist building synthetic cells. Her research aims at understanding chemical principles of biology, using artificial cells to create new tools for bioengineering, drug development, and basic […]
More →Diane Pierotti
Diane brings over 35 years of research program development and successful program funding efforts in excess of $3B, strategic planning and executive management experience. Diane was instrumental in EBRC’s successful […]
More →Richard Murray
Richard M. Murray received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from […]
More →Mark Styczynski
Mark Styczynski is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. At Georgia Tech, he is currently the director of the BioEngineering […]
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