Michael Koeris
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Michael is a co-founder and COO of Sample6 Technologies, a Synthetic Biology startup aiming to improve the health and safety of global consumers. Sample6 is developing integrated systems that can quickly and easily detect harmful and unwanted bacteria in the food, healthcare, and other industries. Michael also co-founded the nonprofit BiotechStart.org to facilitate the dissemination of successful business models for biotech startups, increase awareness amongst prospective founders and help start more biotech companies.
Before starting Sample6 and BiotechStart, Michael completed his doctoral work on network approaches to combat antibiotic-tolerant bacteria with Professor James Collins at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Boston University. While working on his thesis Michael co-developed Sample6’s technology, working with Tim Lu. Michael remains a visiting scholar with the Synthetic Biology Group at MIT and HHMI in the Biomedical Engineering Department at BU. Prior to his doctoral degree, Mike graduated with a M.S. in Biochemistry from the Free University of Berlin, and was a recipient of the German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD) to study at MIT. In addition to his scientific work, Mike previously worked at KPMG Consulting and McKinsey & Company in Germany, as well as Flagship Ventures in Cambridge.