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Davide Marini, Co-founder

Davide M. Marini, Ph.D. is a co-founder of Firefly Bioworks. He obtained his Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he studied the self-organization properties of short artificial peptides and their application to the design of novel biomaterials. He completed his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Prof. David Clapham at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston, where he developed nano-sensors for detecting the activity of ion channels and membrane transporters. Before deciding to pursue his passion for biotechnology, Dr. Marini worked as a marketer of fixed-income derivatives at J.P.Morgan in London. He obtained an M.B.A. from Collège des Ingénieurs (Paris, France) and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Politecnico of Milan (Italy). Dr. Marini is responsible for the business strategy of our firm.

Daniel Pregibon, Co-founder

Daniel C. Pregibon, Ph.D. is a co-founder of Firefly Bioworks and developed the technical foundation of our firm during his doctoral work under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Doyle in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT and Prof. Mehmet Toner at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. His interest in medicine dates back to undergraduate research at Case Western Reserve University, where he obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and performed fundamental studies to aid in the search of an effective malaria vaccine. Dr. Pregibon is responsible for the technological development of our platform and for defining our scientific vision.