Devin Leake

Managing Director atNovalis LifeSciencesNew Hampshire

Devin Leake joined Novalis LifeSciences as Managing Director in 2021. Previously, he was Chief Scientific Officer at CATALOG and held leadership roles at Ginkgo Bioworks and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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Career

  1. Novalis LifeSciences · Managing Director
    Now
  2. University of Texas at Austin
  3. State University of New York at Stony Brook
  4. Thermo Fisher Scientific · Director of R&D
  5. Gen9 · Vice President of R&D and Operations
  6. Ginkgo Bioworks · Head of DNA Synthesis
  7. Sapir Venture Partners · Venture Partner
  8. CATALOG Technologies · Chief Scientific Officer

Focus

life sciencesdna-based data storagecomputationsynthetic biology

Education

SUNY Stony Brook, PhD in Molecular Biology and BiochemistryUniversity of Texas, BA in BiochemistryUniversity of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Arts in BiochemistryState University of New York at Stony Brook, Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Who is Devin Leake?

Devin Leake joined Novalis LifeSciences as Managing Director in 2021. Previously, he was Chief Scientific Officer at CATALOG and held leadership roles at Ginkgo Bioworks and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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What did Devin Leake do before Novalis LifeSciences?

University of Texas at Austin; State University of New York at Stony Brook; Director of R&D at Thermo Fisher Scientific; Vice President of R&D and Operations at Gen9; Head of DNA Synthesis at Ginkgo Bioworks; Venture Partner at Sapir Venture Partners; Chief Scientific Officer at CATALOG Technologies.

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