Mammoth Biosciences
Lucas Harrington is a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Mammoth Biosciences since March 2018. Lucas is also a co-founder of SciFounders since February 2021. Lucas has a background in research, with experience as a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, where their PhD research focused on discovering and engineering new versions of CRISPR. Prior to that, Lucas worked as a Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Research Associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Lucas received their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018 and their Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013.
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Mammoth Biosciences
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Mammoth Biosciences is harnessing the diversity of nature to power the next-generation of CRISPR products. Through the discovery and development of novel CRISPR systems, the company is enabling the full potential of its platform to improve lives by reading and writing the code of life. Mammoth aims to democratize disease detection with an easy and affordable point-of-care test that allows real-time and simultaneous detection of multiple conditions. By leveraging its internal research and development and exclusive licensing to Cas12, Cas13, Cas14, and CasΦ, Mammoth can provide enhanced diagnostics and genome editing for life science research, healthcare, agriculture, biodefense and more. Based in San Francisco, Mammoth Biosciences is co-founded by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna and principal founders Trevor Martin, Janice Chen, and Lucas Harrington. The firm is backed by top institutional investors including Mayfield, NFX, and 8VC, Decheng and leading individual investors including Brook Byers, Tim Cook, and Jeff Huber.