Our Management team & Board members

French Innovator of the Year – MIT TR35
Young Global Leader – World Economic Forum
30 Under 30 in Science – Forbes
Founder – Hello Tomorrow, Deeptech Founders, GreenSpot Tech

Xavier Duportet, PhD

Cofounder, CEO & Board Member

Former VP at GSK

Edith Hessel, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

Lab Head – Institut Pasteur
Young investigator Award – Bettencourt-Schueller foundation
Award – Pasteur Vallery-Radot
Young Investigator – EMBO

David Bikard, PhD

Cofounder, CTO & Board Member

Former Director at Sanofi

Aurélie Grienenberger, PhD

Chief Business Officer

Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures

Samir Kaul

Board Member

Partner at Seventure Partners

Sébastien Groyer

Board Member

Former Chief Medical Officer at Sanofi

Jean-Pierre Lehner, MD

Board Member

From an academic invention to
a true therapeutic modality

Eligo Bioscience was created in 2014 by scientists from Rockefeller University and MIT.

Prof. Timothy Lu

Cofounder & Advisor
• Associate Professor at MIT
• Cofounder & CEO Senti Bio
• Cofounder Synlogic, Tango, Engine
• NIH New Innovator Award, MIT TR35
• Presidential Early Career Award

Prof. Luciano Marraffini

Cofounder & Advisor
• Professor at Rockefeller University
• HHMI Investigator
• Cofounder Intellia Therapeutics
• NIH New Innovator Award
• CRISPR seminal inventor

Our Awards & Grants

A strong international
and interdisciplinary team

We have assembled a team of talented scientists in synthetic biology, microbiology and phage biology to advance our platform and to translate, with experienced developers and executives, our research into impactful products.