2x founder

Yongjin Park

Founder at 1849 bio (YC S24)

Founder

1849 bio· Summer 2024 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2024Founder· 1849 bio

Founder · since 2020

Company

1849 bio

Role

Founder, CSO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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1849 bio

Engineering microbes for miners to unlock billions in trapped metal

Summer 2024

Experience

Career

1849 bio
Founder
Founder, CSO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – Present
2024
Pivot Bio
Scientist III, Technical Project Lead · Berkeley, California, United States · 2023 – 2024
2023
Pivot Bio
Scientist II · Berkeley, California, United States · 2021 – 2023
2021
Pivot Bio
Scientist I · Berkeley, California, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020
Empress Therapeutics
Founder
Synthetic Biology Consultant · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2020 – 2022
2020
Zymergen, Inc.
Scientist I · Emeryville, California · 2019 – 2020
2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Researcher · 2019
2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. candidate · 500 Technology Sq · 2012 – 2019
2012
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Science · Daedeok-gu, Daejeon, Korea · 2008 – 2012
2008
Harvard Medical School
Research Assistant · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2010 – 2011
2010

Bio

I am the co-founder and CSO of 1849 bio. I studied chemical engineering at KAIST and did my PhD at MIT in the Department of Biological Engineering. During my PhD, I developed core technology used in the world's first engineered probiotic that went into clinical trial. After completing PhD, I worked in deep biotech companies, developing microbial products that were administered to over 6M acres of farmland in the US (about the area of Belgium!).