Charles Fracchia

I am an IBM PhD Fellow MIT Medialab in Joe Jacobson's Molecular Machines group and Church lab at the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School. I obtained my Bachelor at Imperial College London where I worked on a potassium ion channel based synthetic biology reporter system. I continued my thesis work at IBM Research where I have been encouraging research in bioelectronic interfaces ever since. I worked as an early intern at Ginkgo Bioworks where I developed many of the assembly pipelines still used today. I am a founder of BioBright, a company building open source hardware and software tools that hopes to transform the way biomedical research is carried out and enable curious people to ask interesting questions easily. I represent Boston for the Hello Tomorrow challenge (European 100k) and am a founding member of the first DIYBio lab. I have spoken about my work at many different venues including the White House, MIT Sloan, NASA Ames, IBM Research and Airbus.