Daphne Preuss's Email & Phone

Daphne Preuss - Dr. Preuss is co-founder of Chromatin, Inc. and a co-inventor on Chromatin's patented mini-chromosome technology. Dr. Preuss has raised over $17 million in venture capital to support the company's growth, and has negotiated partnerships between Chromatin and leading agbiotech companies. Dr. Preuss earned a Ph.D. from MIT, and performed postdoctoral work at Stanford. Prior to joining Chromatin in 2006, she served as the Albert D. Lasker Professor and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at the University of Chicago, where she chaired the oversight committee for the multinational project that sequenced the first plant genome. Dr. Preuss currently serves on the Food & Agriculture Governing Board of the Biotechnology Industry Board, and on the board of Illinois BIO.