Mariëlle is a scientist, engineer and entrepreneur who aims to develop transformative technology that will accelerate progress in the longevity community, move the frontiers of synthetic biology, and shape commercial initiatives that target mitochondrial disease and dysfunction. She obtained a PhD in Synthetic Systems Biology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she contributed to international efforts to build a synthetic cell. In Switzerland, she co-founded SciSwipe. The team developed computational pipelines enabling the crowdsourced exploration of complex, large-scale data, supported by the Swiss Innovation Agency. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University, Mariëlle set out to deduce and employ gene regulatory networks in human cells at RNA isoform resolution to improve human health. She’s keen on figuring out why we still have a mitochondrial genome, and if we can get rid of it sometime soon.
