Janice Chen is the co-founder and CTO of Mammoth Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area that is harnessing the diversity of nature to power the next generation of CRISPR products to detect and cure disease. Through its discovery of novel CRISPR systems, the company is enabling the full potential of its platform to read and write the code of life. Janice received her PhD from the lab of Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna at University of California, Berkeley, where she investigated mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas proteins and is an inventor of several CRISPR-based technologies. Janice has delivered a TEDx talk on the potential for CRISPR to democratize diagnostics and her work has been recognized by several organizations, including Forbes 30 Under 30 in Healthcare, Endpoints Top 20 Women in Biopharma, and MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35.