Director of Bioinformatics
Concentric
Casandra Philipson, PhD, is the Director of Bioinformatics at Concentric by Ginkgo, the biosecurity and public health unit of Ginkgo Bioworks (Email: cphilipson@ginkgobioworks.com). She is passionate about developing capabilities that improve human health at personalized and global scales. Her experience spans basic and applied research, prototyping, and commercializing products in academia, government, and biotech environments. She holds a BS in animal sciences and a PhD in genomics, bioinformatics, and computational biology from Virginia Tech. Her research portfolio focuses on exploiting host-microbe interactions to improve therapeutics and detection devices for infectious diseases.