Eric Steen
Eric Steen
Overview
At Lygos Dr. Steens' primary responsibilities include establishing strategic vision managing partnership and customer development process commercialization product development and fund raising. Dr. Steen is an expert in optimizing sugar to product conversion efficiency and prior to co founding Lygos he led efforts to engineer yeast for the conversion of sugars into fuels and chemicals at the Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute these technologies resulted in numerous peer reviewed publications and patents which are in various stages of commercialization. Dr. Steen earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in Providence RI and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. While in graduate school Dr. Steen completed a program in Management of Technology at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
