Gerard Honig

Gerard founded Symbiotic Health in 2013 to develop microbiome-based therapeutics to address critical public health challenges. He directs all aspects of the company’s strategy and operations. He has received numerous awards for this work, including the FIGHT CDIFF Innovator’s Award from the Peggy Lillis Memorial Foundation. Gerard, a New York native, received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and received a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco, where he held a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowship. He later worked in microbiome research and pathogenesis with Dan Littman and Betty Diamond.