Dirk Gevers
Chief Scientific Officer @Seed Health
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Scientific Officer @Seed Health
Boston, MA, US
Lead scientific R+D programs across the skin microbiome, oral microbiome, vaginal microbiome, gut microbiome, infant nutrition, and built environment• Engage in external scientific and academic collaborations including Stanford, UCLA, CalTech, MIT, Harvard, Cornell, Maryland, Cleveland Clinic, Mass General, Zurich, and the Weizmann Institute• Oversee scientific life cycle management from discovery to impact• Produce high quality research papers and rigorous clinical trials to scale clinical research• Accelerate the translation of science to bring product innovations to market
EDUCATION
Ghent University
M.S. in Biochemistry
Hasselt University
B.S. in Chemistry
Ghent University
Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Laboratory of Microbiology
SKILLS
ABOUT DIRK GEVERS
Dirk Gevers, Ph.D, is Chief Scientific Officer of Seed Health.Dirk joined from his most recent role as Global Head of the Janssen Human Microbiome Institute (JHMI), where he designed and led a product portfolio based on the human microbiome research, pursuing an accelerated translation of science into new products, therapeutics, and diagnostics with impact on health. Previously, Dirk was a Senior Group Leader at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, serving as a scientific liaison among the institute’s data generation platforms and both clinical and analytical collaborators on microbiome-related projects. Dirk’s research included the characterization of the microbial imbalance associated with diseases such as Crohn’s disease, type 1 diabetes and colorectal cancer. He was also involved with the National Institutes of Health Human Microbiome Project, holding a leading role in the Data Analysis Working Group.Dirk received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Ghent University (UGent), Belgium, and completed postdoctoral training at UGent and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in bioinformatics, comparative and evolutionary genome analysis and microbial ecology.
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