Charles Fracchia (charlesfracchia)
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About me

I am an IBM PhD Fellow MIT Medialab in Joe Jacobson's Molecular Machines group and Church lab at the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School. I obtained my Bachelor at Imperial College London where I worked on a potassium ion channel based synthetic biology reporter system. I continued my thesis work at IBM Research where I have been encouraging research in bioelectronic interfaces ever since. I worked as an early intern at Ginkgo Bioworks where I developed many of the assembly pipelines still used today.

I am a founder of BioBright, a company building open source hardware and software tools that hopes to transform the way biomedical research is carried out and enable curious people to ask interesting questions easily. I represent Boston for the Hello Tomorrow challenge (European 100k) and am a founding member of the first DIYBio lab. I have spoken about my work at many different venues including the White House, MIT Sloan, NASA Ames, IBM Research and Airbus.

My current academic interests lie at the intersection of biological engineering and electronics. A space we have been calling Digital Biology†. At the heart of Digital Biology lies the notion of BioElectronic Interfaces. Defining and building said interfaces is the leitmotiv of my research. From scalable DNA origami systems all the way to smart, context-enhancing systems for research and accessible human physiological monitors.

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