Zach Dench

Zachary Dench is a graduate of Gloucester Biotechnology Academy’s class of 2018. Before his time at the Academy, he worked unloading lobster boats for New England lobster and cooking for the Alchemy restaurant and Common Crow natural market. During the internship portion of the Academy program, Zachary worked in the Center for Cancer Systems Biology lab at Dana Farber, on the project creating a map of the interactions between the human body’s 20,000 proteins. Now working as a laboratory technician at GMGI, Zachary is a Gloucester native and uses his spare time to hike around Ravenswood park or Dogtown.