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Zack Abbott

Zack is the CEO and Co-founder of ZBiotics, and the inventor of ZBiotics' proprietary technology.  He has a PhD in microbiology & immunology from the University of Michigan where he studied bacterial gene regulation in Legionella pneumophila. Prior to starting ZBiotics, Zack worked in clinical trial design as well as researching HIV vaccines and pursuing novel antibiotics in both academia and industry....Read more

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Boston Children’s Hospital Microbiome Research Endowed Investigator where he is in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Gastroenterology at BCH, the Department of Microbiology at HMS, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. Dr. Rakoff-Nahoum received B.A.’s in Biology and Religious Studies at Brown University, and both an M.D. and Ph.D in Immunobiology from Yale University, performing graduate work with Ruslan Medzhitov, studying pattern recognition of the microbiota. During...Read more

Sossena Wood, PhD

Dr. Sossena Wood is an Assistant Professor within the Biomedical Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on 1) using multimodal hemodynamic imaging to understand the neurological effects of vascular diseases, particularly sickle cell disease, and also 2) improving the performance of optical imaging technology for individuals of diverse hair and skin types. Dr. Wood completed her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh under the guidance of Professor Tamer S. Ibrahim in 2018 and was a K. Leroy Irvis Fellow, National GEM Consortium PhD...Read more

Edward Botchwey

Dr. Edward Botchwey received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993 and both M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science Engineering and Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 and 2002 respectively. He was recruited to the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2012 from his previous position at the University of Virginia. His current position is Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Dr. Botchwey is former Ph.D. fellow of the National GEM Consortium, a former...Read more

Bouke Wim de Jong

Bouke is a Principal Scientist and Group lead for Applied Microbial Physiology at DSM-Firmenich in Columbia, MD. In the last 15 years, he worked in commercializing, scaling, transferring and different products within human and animal nutritional market, pharmaceutics and fashion industry (Bolt Threads). Entrepreneurship, science and innovation come together in his passion creating a more sustainable future.

Bouke holds a Bachelor and Master degree in Biotechnology from the Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands), Science Based Business MBA from University of Leiden (...Read more

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