Oliver Medvedik, Ph.D.
Director of Scientific Research
Co-Founder, Genspace and Bioworks Institute
Oliver earned his Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School in the Biomedical and Biological Sciences program. As part of his doctoral work he has used single-celled budding yeast as a genetic system to map pathways that underlie the processes of aging in more complex organisms, such as humans. Prior to arriving in Boston in 1999 for his doctoral studies, he has lived most of his life in New York City. He obtained his bachelor's degree in biology from Hunter College, City University of New York, in 1998. Since graduating in 2006 from Harvard, he has worked as a consultant for Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company specializing in the research and development of small-molecule therapeutics to treat age-onset diseases, such as diabetes. Oliver has been awarded the TED fellowship for 2012. He has mentored two of Harvard’s teams for the international genetically engineered machines competition (IGEM) held annually at M.I.T. Currently, he is the principal investigator at the Bioworks Institute laboratory for art and biology, and Genspace community biotechnology laboratory in Brooklyn, New York.
URL: BIOWORKS
URL: GENSPACE
e-mail: oliver@genspace.org
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