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Scott Boyken
CTO & Co-Founder
Outpace Bio
Scott Boyken, PhD is co-founder and CTO of Outpace Bio. During his postdoctoral work in the Baker lab at the University of Washington, Dr. Boyken pioneered new computational methods to design the first de novo proteins with programmable interaction specificity and moving parts. Applying these methods, he created de novo protein switches and logic gates capable of controlling new biological functions in cells and precisely targeting immunotherapies, resulting in over 20 publications and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface. Based on this technology, he co-founded Lyell Immunopharma, where he led the Protein and Cell Engineering team together with Marc Lajoie, creating new technologies to improve efficacy and safety for anti-cancer T cell therapies. Dr. Boyken earned his PhD from Iowa State University where he was awarded an NSF IGERT Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology. His dissertation research in the Andreotti and Jernigan labs combined NMR and biochemical assays with computational modeling and MD simulations to study kinase-mediated immune cell signaling. In 2021, Scott was selected for Endpoints 20 under 40. He has authored more than thirty scientific publications and is an inventor on 16 published patent families.
SynBioBeta 2025 - Session Speaker
Designing Cellular Medicines: Using High-Throughput Experiments and AI Approaches to Program Cells to Cure Disease
We now live in a world where genetically engineered cells are circulating people's bodies and warding off cancer. But the first approved cell-based medicines—such as CAR-T therapy—are just the beginning. In this session, we'll explore the next generation of programmable cellular medicines.
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