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Rongzhen Tian

Okapi Bioscience

Co-Founder & CEO

Rongzhen Tian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Okapi Bioscience Ltd, which leverages, accelerates, and extends the power of evolution in living systems to make products more sustainably, and to make new classes of products. Together with scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, he developed an orthogonal DNA replication system that now provides the scientific foundation for application and commercialization at Okapi. He is also a Principal Investigator at the Generative Biology Institute (EIT) and an Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

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