March 2019

Elliot Swartz is an Academic Research Advisor with The Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit organization acting as a think tank for applying innovative strategies toward creating a sustainable and ethical food supply via plant-based and cell-based meat, egg, and dairy technologies. He holds a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience from Lehigh University and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCLA. He has several years of experience in utilizing induced pluripotent stem cells for modeling neuromuscular disease as well as consulting start-ups in the biotech industry involved in drug discovery for...Read more

Zach is a Co-Founder of Zymergen and responsible for our overall scientific direction.  Zach has 17 peer-reviewed publications in journals including Cell, Science and JACS, seven issued patents. He has served as Principal Investigator on multiple DARPA contracts developing advanced tools for bioengineering and rapid prototyping novel biomolecules to generate innovative polymers and materials. Previously, he was the Director of Biology at Amyris and worked as a research fellow at Stanford University Medical School.  He has a Ph.D. in biophysics from UCSF, an MSc in neuroscience...Read more