SynBioBeta Speaker
Frank Poelwijk
VP, Head of Prototyping Lab
Generate:Biomedicines
May 2026, SynBioBeta
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Frank J. Poelwijk is Vice President and Head of the Prototyping Lab at Generate:Biomedicines, where he is responsible for the development of experimental platforms and data-generation capabilities at scale. Trained as a physicist, he works at the intersection of technology and biology, with a focus on high-throughput, information-rich experimentation.Generate is a clinical-stage generative biology company developing new protein therapeutics by combining computational innovation with scalable biological experimentation. Its platform is designed to generate therapeutically relevant data and help create molecular solutions for challenges beyond the reach of traditional approaches.Before joining Generate, Frank held research roles at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Wyss Institute, and UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he studied fitness landscapes, epistasis, and data-driven protein design, contributing to methods that link sequence variation and directed evolution to protein structure and function.
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