Evan Appleton
Chief Scientific Officer Co-founder at Intertwined Biosciences
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Appleton is a biotech entrepreneur and scientist with 12 years of experience at the intersection of synthetic biology, stem cell engineering, and computational design automation. As co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of a stealth AI-driven cell therapy startup in Boston, he is building a Virtual Immune Cell platform that applies evolutionary algorithms to next-generation cellular therapeutics. His prior leadership roles include heading stem cell biology and reprogramming at Colossal Biosciences and a productive postdoctoral tenure in the Church Lab at Harvard Medical School, grounded in a PhD in Bioinformatics from Boston University. Evan combines hands-on laboratory expertise with software tool development for genetic construct design, an uncommon blend that enables both conceptual innovation and practical implementation. He is also engaged in conservation-focused projects like de-extinction, reflecting a broader mission to apply engineering approaches to complex biological and ecological challenges.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at Boston University
English, German, French
Github Skills (2)
webapp4
scientific-computing2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
CIDARLAB/raven-public
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 2 months
eappleton/cellcartographer
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 release, 1 tag in 9 months
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