Driving progress in biotechnology

I’m a founder of Asimov Press, a publishing venture that explains how science and technology improves human and animal flourishing. I’m also Head of Creative at Asimov, a biotechnology company in Boston advancing the intelligent and rational design of living cells.

I studied biochemistry at university and spent four years investigating therapies for diabetes and heart failure in mice. During a masters degree, I invented CRISPR gene-editing tools and, after, pursued a bioengineering Ph.D. at Caltech before dropping out and going to science journalism school in New York. After a year working as a data journalist, I moved to Boston, where I helped design the first undergraduate program for genetic engineering at MIT. I believe that biotechnology is the single most important field for this century of progress, but is vastly under-covered in media relative to its impacts.

Semi-boring workaholic

Most of my time outside work is spent traveling, building LEGOs, or painting model airplanes and trains. I have two cats (one fat, one skinny) named Lilly and Ava. I’m chronically bad at buying clothes, so I mostly just cycle through ten different t-shirts.