
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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Jarvis
Anocca AB
CEO, Co-founder

Alex
Rives
CZI Biohub
Head of Science

Karenโฏ
Akinsanya
Schrodinger
President, R&D โ Therapeutics

Christopher
Arendt
Takeda
CSO, Head of Research

Stef
van Grieken
Cradle
CEO

Michael
Koeris
DARPA
Director, BTO

Jennifer
Dionne
Pumpkinseed
CEO

Daniyal
Hussain
GSK
Exec. Dir., Tech BD

Cynthia
Hong
Novartis
Dir., Search & Evaluation
SynBioBeta 2027 May 3-6, San Jose, California


