What We Do
Erica Gentry
Research Affiliate
Eri is an economist-turned-biotech entrepreneur and a White House Champion for Change in Citizen Science. She is a Research Director at Institute for the Future, where her current interests focus on AI, human-machine partnerships, biology, and the future of medicine. She is also a co-founder of BioCurious, and was previously VP of Open Innovation at Scanadu, Community Manager at Genomera, and CEO / co-founder of Livly.
Livly, a nonprofit cancer research company, started in a Mountain View, California garage and soon attracted a community of both amateurs and professional scientists that completely overwhelmed its capacity to support collaborative work. Hence the need for BioCurious, the world's first hackerspace model for biotechnology, now one of the largest DIY bio organizations in the world.