Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center competitors

Eric Verdin is a President/CEO at Buck Institute for Research on Aging. He works or has worked as Gladstone Institutes at UCSF. Eric attended Université de Liège.

Craig Overpeck is a serial entrepreneur and intrapreneur. Craig has built several medical media, market research, physician recruitment, and physician education products and services that have returned millions of investor dollars over the past 18 years. Craig has both startup and large public company experience and has successfully completed 7 large M&A transactions with leadership responsibility for their integrations. In 2016, Craig was named CTO of the Year awarded by Corporate America Magazine and was also featured in Profile Magazine in January 2017 for his role in M3, the #5 Forbes Innovative Growth company of 2016 and 2017. Craig graduated from Ursinus College with a BS in Biology and Chemistry and attended graduate school at Villanova University for Biology. Craig has participated in Stanford University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program and lives in Blue Bell, PA with his wife and 4 children

Jay D. Keasling is a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also associate laboratory director for biosciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and chief executive officer of the Joint BioEnergy Institute. He is considered one of the foremost authorities in synthetic biology, especially in the field of metabolic engineering.