Our team
SecureDNA is composed of academic life scientists and cryptographers, policy analysts, information security specialists, and software engineers from many nations.
Foundation Council
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Prof. Kevin Esvelt
Foundation Council
Director of the Sculpting Evolution group at the MIT Media Lab. Co-founder of the SecureDNA Foundation; inventor of CRISPR-based gene drive.
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Dean Andrew Yao
Foundation Council
Professor and Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University; Turing Award winner.
Management Team
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Jens Berlips
Management team
Swedish health tech entrepreneur with interest in biosafety. Managing the SecureDNA project and the Swiss Foundation.
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Dr. Leonard Foner
Management team
Software architect and security lead for SecureDNA, with research background in cryptography, distributed systems, and privacy-protecting technologies.