Nathan Lewis

Dr. Lewis is a scientific founder of NeuImmune and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board. He is an expert in biotechnology and computational biology, with extensive experience in the analysis and design of cell factories and biologics.

With experience in genomics and systems biology, he helped lead the public efforts to sequence the genomes of the Chinese hamster and diverse CHO cell lines. He subsequently served as the Scientific Coordinator for the CHO cell engineering program at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark. In this capacity, his team led the development of complex systems biology models and A.I. to study and engineer metabolism, protein secretion, and glycosylation in CHO cells. These and other tools developed in the center facilitated his work wherein he co-developed engineered mammalian cell lines addressing a wide range of complex traits including viral resistance, an elimination of lactic acid secretion, and complex glycoengineered cell lines. This work led to the establishment of the NNF-funded National Biologics Facility at the Technical University of Denmark, which he co-manages. Dr. Lewis also currently serves as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego where he leads the lab of Systems Biology and Cell Engineering and a dynamic team focused on the development of big data analytic tools, omics technologies and computational models for pediatric diagnostics and the study of processes involved in the synthesis and secretion of complex proteins and carbohydrates. Dr. Lewis has authored over 125 peer-reviewed studies and nearly a dozen patents and applications. He previously served on advisory boards in the biotechnology space, and as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Brigham Young University, conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. George Church at Harvard Medical School and Wyss Institute, completed a Ph.D. in Bioengineering with Prof. Bernhard Palsson at UC San Diego, and a B.S. in Biochemistry at Brigham Young University.