SynBioBeta 2026 Speaker

Frank Poelwijk

Generate:Biomedicines

VP, Head of Prototyping Lab

Frank J. Poelwijk is Vice President and Head of the Prototyping Lab at Generate:Biomedicines, where he is responsible for the development of experimental platforms and data-generation capabilities at scale. Trained as a physicist, he works at the intersection of technology and biology, with a focus on high-throughput, information-rich experimentation.Generate is a clinical-stage generative biology company developing new protein therapeutics by combining computational innovation with scalable biological experimentation. Its platform is designed to generate therapeutically relevant data and help create molecular solutions for challenges beyond the reach of traditional approaches.Before joining Generate, Frank held research roles at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Wyss Institute, and UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he studied fitness landscapes, epistasis, and data-driven protein design, contributing to methods that link sequence variation and directed evolution to protein structure and function.

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Reagan

Jarvis

Anocca AB

CEO, Co-founder

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Alex

Rives

CZI Biohub

Head of Science

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Karenโ€ฏ

Akinsanya

Schrodinger

President, R&D โ€“ Therapeutics

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Christopher

Arendt

Takeda

CSO, Head of Research

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Stef

van Grieken

Cradle

CEO

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Michael

Koeris

DARPA

Director, BTO

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Jennifer

Dionne

Pumpkinseed

CEO

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Daniyal

Hussain

GSK

Exec. Dir., Tech BD

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Cynthia

Hong

Novartis

Dir., Search & Evaluation

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Sarah Lynn

Tao

CSL Behring

Sr. Dir., S&E; Ig TA & Tech Lead

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Blue watercolor illustration of a folded protein structure
Blue watercolor illustration of a folded protein structure
Blue watercolor illustration of a folded protein structure
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SynBioBeta 2027 May 3-6, San Jose, California