Speakers

Professor of Synthetic Biology and Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Edinburgh.  She is Director of the Engineering Biology Mission Hub for Advanced Therapeutics and co-director of the Edinburgh Genome Foundry for synthetic DNA assembly and cell phenotyping.  Her research focuses on using engineering biology approaches for developing and controlling genetic circuits for applications in cell and gene therapies and metabolic engineering. Her research has given rise to two early-stage start-ups using a combination of AI and engineering biology for new therapeutics.