Team
Peter Thiel and Lindy Fishburne created Breakout Labs within the Thiel Foundation in 2011. Since then, our team has grown to match the needs of our portfolio.
Ambassadors
Breakout Labs Ambassadors are volunteers at research universities who represent Breakout Labs at their local events. If you are interested in becoming an ambassador, apply here.
Teryn Johnson
San Diego, CA
PhD Student in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Bridging Physiological Recording Scales, Neural Rhythms, Deep Brain Stimulation
A. Nicole Dusang
Providence, Rhode Island
PhD Student in Electrical Engineering, Brown University
Research Interests: Electrical Engineering and neuroscience
Nima Ronaghi
Atlanta, Georgia
PhD Student in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research interests: Applied Organic Synthesis
Kinshuk Mitra
Houston, Texas
PhD Student in Bioengineering, Rice University
Research interests: Mammalian synthetic biology, cell therapy and cell-free diagnostics
William Gaviria
Evanston, IL
PhD Student in Material Sciences, Northwestern University
Research Interests: Carbon Nano-materials
Tobias Schraink
New York, NY
PhD Student in Systems and Computational Biomedicine, NYU
Research interests: Bacterial Genomics and Multi-omics
Melanie Reschke
New Haven, CT
PhD Student in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Yale University
Research interests: Biophysics & Bio-engineering
Amber Lucas
Pittsburgh, PA
PhD Student in Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Research interests: Polymer based protein engineering, proteomics, protein biochemistry, and splicing.
Tony Kulesa
Cambridge, MA
PhD Student in Biological Engineering, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Research Interests: Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology
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