Scott Magness

Scott Magness, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder of Altis Biosystems and a scientific advisor. At Altis, he advises on primary gut cultures and the biology underlying RepliGut®, and his expertise is in stem cell biology, intestinal physiology, single-cell genomics, and high-throughput platforms to study factors that influence GI stem cell maintenance and differentiation and the microbiome. He obtained his Ph.D. in Genetics & Molecular Biology from UNC Chapel Hill and is also an Associate Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and North Carolina State University (NC State), and Departments of Medicine, and Cell Biology & Physiology at UNC.