Justin received his PhD from Stanford’s Genetics Department in 2016. He has over 10 years of experience working in the field of programmable genome engineering. He was an early adopter of CRISPR technologies and developed the first published CRISPR screen in yeast. In addition to leading research programs and publishing high-impact research papers in this area, he’s been a key innovator of Recombia’s technologies. He is an alum of the Ignite program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Scientific/Business Advisor
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Kwang-Chul Kwon, PhD
Vice President of Research and Development
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Becca McCarthy, MBA
Chief Operating Officer
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Olia Gaidarenko, PhD
Senior Scientist
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Advisors
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Justin Smith, PhD
Scientific/Business Advisor
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Oliver Zill, PhD
Bioinformatics Consultant
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Jennifer Brophy, PhD
Scientific Advisor, Plant Systems
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