Colby Souders PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Biopharma at Twist Bioscience

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Colby Souders earned his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from Texas A&M and previously held positions at Abveris, MassBiologics and Kanyos Bio (now Anokion). At MassBiologics, he worked to advance monoclonal antibodies for the prevention, treatment or diagnosis of various infectious and endogenous diseases, as well as develop related platform technologies to advance and expand the MassBiologics pipeline. Later, he joined the Kanyos Bio Protein Engineering team to develop therapeutics based on a novel antigen-specific immune tolerance platform. Colby joined Abveris in 2018 as the Chief Scientific Officer to establish best-in-class antibody discovery workflows and build a premium discovery engine with industry-leading timelines. He has continued as Senior Director of R&D at Twist Bioscience after Abveris was acquired by Twist Bioscience in 2021.