Principal Investigator

Sam Rodriques

Sam is an entrepreneur, technologist, and inventor in the biotechnology space. He has invented new technologies ranging from 3D nanofabrication techniques to new ways to extract spatial and temporal information from RNA sequencing. He founded the Applied Biotechnology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London in January 2021. He previously founded multiple medical device companies, including most recently as an entrepreneur in residence at Petri, a biotech accelerator in Boston, Massachusetts. He obtained his PhD in Physics from MIT in the spring of 2019, and his B.Sc. in Physics summa cum laude with highest honors in Physics from Haverford College in 2013. He has received numerous national awards and fellowships to support his studies and research, including the Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a Churchill Scholarship.