Dan Mandell, PhD

Daniel J. Mandell, PhD is CEO and Co-Founder of GRO Biosciences. A scientist and entrepreneur, Dr. Mandell is a leading expert in synthetic biology and protein engineering. Together with Dr. George Church, he leveraged genomically recoded organisms (GROs) to produce the first proteins with stability and function dependent on non-standard amino acids. Dr. Mandell completed his research fellowship in genetics at Harvard Medical School where he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation. Dr. Mandell completed his PhD at University of California, San Francisco, his MSc at University of Edinburgh, and his undergraduate degree in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Dr. Mandell currently serves as a member of the BIO (Biotechnology Innovation Organization) Early-Stage Advisory Council and as a mentor for the iGEM and Nucleate programs. Prior to his role at GRObio, Dr. Mandell served as a consultant with Warp Drive Bio.