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Principal Investigator: Pamela Silver, PhD is an endowed Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, the lead founder of the Synthetic Biology HIVE at HMS, and a founding Member of Harvard’s Wyss Institute. She is a leader in the fields of Synthetic and Systems Biology and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Silver is a founder of the greentech companies Kula Bio and Circe Bio, which use carbon-capturing bacteria to generate fertilizer and foodstuffs, respectively. These companies spun out of her lab based on sustainability research analogous to that proposed here. She also developed high throughput screening to discover new molecules now in successful clinical trials that form the basis for the publicly traded company KPTI. In addition, she has founded and served on the SAB of numerous startups.

September 2023