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Reshma Shetty is a co-founder of Ginkgo Bio-
works, a synthetic biology company that pro-
grams cells to manufacture a wide range of
products, including food, materials, and thera-
peutics. She has played a big role in advancing
the synthetic biology industry and has been
recognized for her contributions. Fast Company
named her one of the 100 Most Creative Peo-
ple in Business in 2011. She has a BS degree in
computer science from the University of Utah
and a PhD in biological engineering from MIT.
Anna Crumbley is a research chemical engi-
neer at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities
Development Command Chemical Biological
Center where she is working on biomanufac-
turing advances that will free the U.S. from de-
pendence on foreign sources for critical manu-
facturing materials. She holds a BS in chemical
engineering from the University of Alabama
and a PhD from Rice University in chemical
and biomolecular engineering.
Michaeline Albright is
Technical Project Manager,
Environmental Microbiol-
ogy, at Allonnia, which aims
to revolutionize the waste
markets and create a waste-
and pollution-free world.
Michaeline is passionate
about using microbes to
solve the challenge of global
waste. She holds a BS in
Geological Sciences from
Brown University and a PhD
in Biological Sciences from
the University of California,
Irvine.
Jen Nwankwo is founder
and CEO of 1910 Genetics,
whose mission is to decrease
the timeline and cost of drug
discovery by leveraging the
power of biology and AI. Jen
got her PhD in pharmacology
at Tufts University School of
Medicine, where she did her
dissertation on sickle cell
disease — a traditionally
understudied area of biology
that disproportionately af-
fects Black people.
Cameron Pitt is Chief Business Officer and
Founder at Quanta Therapeutics, a biotech
company that focuses on developing therapies
for oncology, specifically targeting RAS, which
is a prevalent and elusive target in cancer treat-
ment. Cameron graduated from Stanford Uni-
versity with a BS in biology and then received
a PhD in biomedical sciences from UCSF, fo-
cusing on cancer. After graduate school, he
went to work in venture capital, first at Versant
Ventures and then at Sofinnova Investments.
Jeff Nobbs is a co-founder of Zero Acre
Farms which has developed a new type of
cooking oil generated by microbes through
the process of fermentation. The result is a
healthier all-purpose oil with more good fats
than olive oil and a tiny environmental foot-
print — production of the oil uses 99% less
water than olive oil and 87% less land than
canola oil. Jeff received a Business Adminis-
tration and Entrepreneurship degree from the
University of Southern California.
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