Zachary Sun has been developing fundamental synthetic biology technologies since 2006, and has published work on MAGE genomic engineering in Nature and on a cell-free prototyping environment in eLife. The latter forms the basis for Synvitrobio. Synvitrobio has received support from DARPA, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and from QB3. Zach is on leave from the UCLA/Caltech MD/PhD program.