Ken Takeoka

Ken leads the Biology team at Antheia, which incorporates both strain and protein engineering functions. He has 15+ years of experience in the synthetic biology field including companies such as Amyris and Novartis. One of his passions is molecular biology tool development and he previously worked to build the foundation for the automated strain engineering pipeline at Amyris. At Novartis, he modernized the molecular biology techniques and established a platform to model mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in a range of organisms.