Dr. Richard Yu, PhD

CEO and Co-founder at Abalone Bio

Speaker

Richard Yu, Ph.D., co-founder, CEO, and board director, Abalone Bio. Richard studied physics, biophysics, and computer science at UC Berkeley (BA 1993), protein secondary structure prediction with Teresa Head-Gordon at UC Berkeley/LBNL, and experimental and computational structural biology with Axel Brunger at Yale University (Ph.D. 2000). As a research fellow, he studied information transmission in eukaryotic signal transduction systems at the dawn of systems and synthetic biology with Roger Brent and Sydney Brenner at the Molecular Sciences Institute. Prior to Abalone Bio, he co-founded and served as Chief Scientific Officer at GPB, a cell engineering company focused on renewable energy, and was Scientific and Operations Director at qb3@953 (now MBC Biolabs) in San Francisco.