SynBioBeta Speaker
Alex Rosay
Cascade Biocatalysts
Co-Founder and CEO
Alex Rosay is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cascade Bio, a company focused on creating better biocatalysts for cell-free biomanufacturing. Previously, Alex was at Zymergen as a Senior Product Manager for Zymergen's data science and software teams, using technology to accelerate new molecule discovery and gather metagenomic insights. He has a background in chemical engineering from Stanford and began his career as a management consultant at Bain & Company where he advised companies in the pharmaceutical, private equity and technology sectors. In the three and a half years since starting Cascade, Alex has been lucky to nerd out on enzymes all over the world with customers, academics and industry leaders, and he looks forward to sharing his perspective at SynBioBeta.
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Biomanufacturing
Bio-Sharpened: Enzymes Transforming Cleaning, Processing, and the Industrial Food System
Enzymes are becoming the precision tools behind cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable production across both home-care and food manufacturing. In cleaning products, next-generation enzymes replace harsh chemicals with biodegradable, high-performance biocatalysts that work at lower temperatures and deliver superior stain, odor, and grease removal. In food processing, engineered proteases, lipases, amylases, and fiber-modifying enzymes are unlocking new textures, cleaner labels, better stability, and reduced energy use—reshaping how everything from dairy and bakery to beverages and plant proteins are made.
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Biomanufacturing
Bio-Sharpened: Enzymes Transforming Cleaning, Processing, and the Industrial Food System
Enzymes are becoming the precision tools behind cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable production across both home-care and food manufacturing. In cleaning products, next-generation enzymes replace harsh chemicals with biodegradable, high-performance biocatalysts that work at lower temperatures and deliver superior stain, odor, and grease removal. In food processing, engineered proteases, lipases, amylases, and fiber-modifying enzymes are unlocking new textures, cleaner labels, better stability, and reduced energy use—reshaping how everything from dairy and bakery to beverages and plant proteins are made.
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Human Health
From Cells to Patients: Solving the Scale Mismatch in Virtual Biology
Drug discovery often measures biology at the cell level while interventions work at the tissue, organ, or whole-patient scale. This mismatch can make accurate cell-level predictions irrelevant in the clinic. This session dives into strategies to bridge that gap: multiscale modeling that nests single-cell dynamics within organ-level simulations, spatial transcriptomics that preserve context, and surrogate models that translate cell-level outputs into clinical biomarkers. Speakers will ask: how do we ensure virtual biology reflects not just what cells do in isolation, but how biology behaves in the real complexity of patients?
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