Gjalt Huisman, PhD

Advisor to Baruch Future Ventures at Founder & CEO, Embold Therapeutics

Speaker

Gjalt Huisman is an Advisor to Baruch Future Ventures a pioneering, climate-tech focused, family investment firm. He is currently Founder & CEO of Embold Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics for degenerative diseases of aging. His career spans the world of synthetic biology with a track record of discovering biologics as well as developing enzymatic manufacturing processes for specialty and commodity chemicals. Most recently he built Codexis’ Biotherapeutics business, leading to a clinical pipeline of therapeutic enzymes for rare genetic diseases related to amino acid and lysosomal metabolism.