Weisheng Chen, PhD

Founder and CEO at Leveragen

Speaker

Dr. Weisheng Chen is the Founder and CEO of Leveragen, Inc., a Boston-based early-stage biotech company developing next-generation genetic models for antibody discovery. Dr. Chen received his PhD degree from the University of Michigan under the mentorship of molecular geneticist Philippe Soriano, and carried out his postdoc research with molecular biology pioneer Tom Maniatis at Harvard and Columbia. Prior to founding Leveragen in 2017, Dr. Chen was a founding scientist and genetic models group leader at Kallyope, Inc.