Dawn Chen

Dawn Chen is a graduate student at both the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harvard University, focusing on synthetic biology, RNA, and functional genomics as part of the PhD program in Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology. Previous experience includes a Bio-IT Fellowship at 8VC, where an investment thesis on de novo protein design was developed, and a role as a software engineer at Google, specializing in distributed data processing for Google Maps. Dawn has also contributed to undergraduate research and teaching at Yale University and held internships at Facebook and Genentech, where projects aimed at optimizing drug candidate design and enhancing software tools were undertaken. Education credentials include a Doctor of Philosophy in progress at Harvard University, and a B.S./M.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University with distinction.