Ely Porter

Ely Porter currently serves as the Chief Scientific Officer at Dash Bio, a position held since October 2024. Previously, Porter was a Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of RootPath from May 2017 to May 2023, and a Co-Founder and VP of Technology during the same time frame. In addition, Porter worked at Nest.Bio Ventures as a team member from May 2017 to March 2020. Academic experience includes a role as a Postdoctoral Associate and Ragon Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from August 2015 to May 2017, focusing on the development of small molecule induced regulatory mechanisms for RNA-only gene circuits. Ely Porter earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Colorado Boulder and a B.S. in Biology from The Ohio State University.