Kedar Patel

Kedar Patel is responsible for developing the foundational molecular biology and microbiology capabilities and, ultimately, for creating and characterizing the production cell lines at the core of the product offerings. Prior to joining NovoNutrients, Kedar recruited and led a large team of scientists and engineers at Zymergen to create and operate their high-throughput platform for DNA assembly and microbe engineering in a broad range of industrially relevant organisms (bacteria, yeasts, filamentous fungi). Prior to that, he helped establish the Automated Strain Engineering pipeline for high-throughput engineering of yeasts at Amyris. With over 20 years of experience in the SynBio industry, Kedar is an author/inventor on over 20 patents and publications. Kedar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Mumbai in India and a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in California. He is a native speaker of English, Hindi and Gujarati.