Christopher Pirie

Dr. Christopher Pirie is a biotechnology executive and serial entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Decycle Bio where they're commercializing de-novo-designed, cell-free reaction cascades for platform chemicals. He previously served as co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of HDT Bio, an RNA vaccines company, where he helped to secure and service >$100M in federal grants/contracts, commercial partnership agreements, and equity financing. Before that he was co-founder and CEO of Virvio, a biopharmaceutical company spun out of the Institute for Protein Design and focused on designer proteins for respiratory diseases like influenza. He also co-founded Manus Bio where he built and ran the enzyme engineering team while leading intellectual property development. Dr. Pirie coaches entrepreneurship workshops around the world with MIT Sloan Business School and has mentored early-stage startups through the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship at UW. When he’s not working, he is a father of two, avid soccer player, and occasional sailor.