Steven Kuntz

Steven joined Creyon with the goal of understanding how to manipulate complex regulatory pathways with oligonucleotide-based medicines. He has extensive experience finding the mechanisms, structure, and engineering principles behind gene networks regulating growth and homeostasis fascinating. Steven previously worked with Ionis Pharmaceuticals to reshape and expand their next-generation sequencing pipeline. With a foundation in Bioengineering from the University of California San Diego, he pursued his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology where he studied how evolution shapes the function of gene regulatory networks in development, covering both the conservation of cis-regulatory elements and inherent robustness of differentiation networks. As a postdoc at University of California, Berkeley, Steven tracked the temperature-dependence of development, discovering the coherent maintenance of disparate developmental processes by a few critical regulators.