Our Management team & Board members

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Benoit Barteau

Board Director

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Nessan Bermingham

Board Director

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Laia Crespo-Martin

Board Director

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Xavier Duportet

Founder, CEO & Board Director

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Bobby Gaspar

Chairman of the Board

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Aurélie Grienenberger

Chief Operating Officer

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Mary Spellman

Chief Medical Officer

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Iain Wilcock

Board Director

Scientific
Cofounders

Pioneers in synthetic biology, microbiology and phage biology.

Prof. David Bikard

Cofounder & Advisor
• Professor at Institut Pasteur, Head of the Synthetic Biology Lab
• CRISPR bacterial editing co-inventor
• Pasteur Vallery-Radot Award, Travey K. Lee Award, Bettencourt-Schuller Award

Prof. Luciano Marraffini

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

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

Our Awards & Grants

A strong international
and interdisciplinary team

We have assembled talented scientists in synthetic biology, microbiology and immunology with experienced developers and executives, to translate our platform into impactful products.