SynBioBeta Speaker
Jessica Green
Program Manager
ARPA-H
May 2026, SynBioBeta
Speaker
Dr. Jessica Green has devoted her career to bridging science, health, and environmental security across public- and private-sector innovation ecosystems. She joined the first cohort of Program Managers at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), where she leads investments that propel breakthrough health solutions beyond what traditional approaches can tackle. Prior to ARPA-H, she served as founding CEO of Phylagen, a microbiome data analytics company that provided services to Fortune 500 companies across 7 continents. Through her leadership the company scaled to a global team of 100+ (including contractors), generated $10M in revenue and was named Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. During the COVID pandemic, the company developed novel methods for efficiently monitoring pathogens in office buildings as large as the World Trade Center. In her former life as a professor, she co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. As co-founding Director of the Biology and Built Environment Center at the University of Oregon, her team achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first to successfully sequence the DNA of indoor air. She served on the Science Advisory Board at the Santa Fe Institute and has been honored with esteemed awards including the Blaise Pascal International Research Chair, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and two TED Fellowships.
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