About
Braden Tierney is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Two Frontiers Project, a non-profit, biotech research organization that leverages life’s adaptation to extreme environments to address major societal challenges, from climate change to food sustainability. Dr. Tierney is a combined experimental microbiologist and data scientist, and he has studied the role and function of microorganisms in a diverse array of ecologies, from the human microbiota to low-Earth orbit. During his PhD at Harvard Medical School, he built robust statistical tools for the identification of microbes causative for and associated with human disease in large scale sequencing and clinical datasets. He has managed the development of microbial products, including clinical trials for microbial therapeutics, and he has developed further applications for the use of microbes in mitigating diet-based dysbiosis. Dr. Tierney additionally serves as the Director of Exposomics and Microbial Data Science at Harvard Medical School. In his free time, Dr. Tierney loves winter hiking in the white mountains, making music with friends, and training and guiding scuba divers in the waters of his hometown, Boston, Massachusetts.
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February 2025
