Christina Boville, PhD

Co-founder & CEO at Aralez Bio

Tina Boville is the co-founder and CEO of Aralez Bio, a startup using biocatalysis to unlock noncanonical amino acids. Boville founded Aralez Bio in 2019 alongside Dr. David Romney (ACS Talented 12) and Prof. Frances Arnold (2018 Nobel Prize), and has been recognized as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35, a Biotech Founder to Watch, and is an Activate Fellow. Boville received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Colorado and then conducted her postdoctoral research at Caltech as a Resnick Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, where she co-developed the tryptophan synthase platform that Aralez Bio uses today.