Xi Chen is the Founder and CEO of RootPath. He has over ten years of experience leading R&D, business development, and corporate strategy in various positions. Prior to joining industry, he was a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University working on the application of DNA molecular programming in early cancer detection. He was also a CPRIT research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where he led theoretical and applied research on DNA biophysics, molecular programming, and synthetic biology. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in Biotechnology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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