Who We Are

Meet the team

Dr Rennos Fragkoudis

Head of Edinburgh Genome Foundry

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Dr Gaynor Campbell

Research Technologist (Beacon)

  • Cell line development (CLD) and antibody discovery (AbD)

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Dr Elliott Chapman

Research Technologist (Automation)

  • DNA assembly and assay development

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Mr Craig Gilmour

Research Technician (Automation)

  • DNA assembly and assay development

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Dr Peter Vegh

Biofoundry Computational Biology Lead

  • DNA design and software development

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Prof Susan Rosser – Co-Director and Co-founder

Dr Giovanni Stracquadanio – Co-Director


We are grateful to all of those who have helped make the Foundry a success since its foundation, including: 

Dr Sophie Donovan

Dr Daniel Sachs

Dr Valentin Zulkower

Dr Nick Pantidos

Mr Scott Neilson

Dr Patrick Cai

Fraser Morton

Sarah Zheng

Dr Ivan Yuan

Dr Hille Tekotte

Aitor Bleda

Isaac Luo

Dr Jane Paget

Dr Laura Milne


The Foundry is proud to be part of

Global Biofoundries Alliance

An international consortium that aims to develop, promote, and support diverse types of non-commercial biofoundries.

International Gene Synthesis Consortium (IGSC)

An industry-led group of gene synthesis companies and organizations formed to design and apply a common protocol to screen both the sequences of synthetic gene orders and the customers who place them. It promotes the beneficial application of gene synthesis technology while safeguarding biosecurity.