Dr. Pamela Silver is the Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. She received her B.S. in chemistry and Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California. She has been recognized with an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, a Research Scholar of the March of Dimes, a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Claudia Adams Barr Investigator, a NIH MERIT award, the Philosophical Society Lecture, a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is among the top global influencers in synthetic biology and her work was named 1 of the top 10 breakthroughs by the World Economic Forum.  

She serves on the board of the Internationally Genetics Engineering Machines (iGEM) Competition and is member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. She has led numerous projects for ARPA-E, iARPA and DARPA. She is the co-founder of several biotech companies including most recently KulaBio and CIRCE and serves on numerous public and private advisory boards. She is passionate about using biological solutions for health and sustainability and training the next generation of synthetic biologists.