Eric Espinosa

Eric is an experienced scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founding scientist at three biotech companies and holds more than a dozen patents in next generation sequencing technologies and protein engineering. Dr. Espinosa has been published in top-tier journals such as Cell, Science, and Journal of Cell Biology. He was a scientist at Clontech Laboratories and TakaraBio, consults for early-stage life science companies, and leads the immortalized cuttlefish cell line project at BioCurious. Eric received his B.S. in Chemistry at Indiana University (2004) where he studied RNA structure and function. He then went to Stanford University where he earned his PhD in the Biochemistry Department (2011). He worked with Suzanne Pfeffer to understand the molecular mechanisms of vesicle trafficking. Eric has been a BioCurious board member since 2017.