Oliver Medvedik

Oliver Medvedik, Ph.D. is co-founder and Vice President of the non-profit organization LEAF (Life Extension Advocacy Foundation), where he serves on the board of directors, and the Lifespan.io crowdfunding platform. He has given countless media interviews, particularly on topics related to the biotech industry and geroscience, has also worked as a biotechnology consultant at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, and has taught molecular and synthetic biology to hundreds of students while at Harvard University, The Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, Genspace and NYU. He has also instructed six different undergraduate teams for the International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (iGEM) from 2009-2015. He is also co-founder of the community biotechnology laboratory, Genspace, located in Brooklyn, where he continues to serve on its board of directors. A first of its kind, it is an open biotechnology laboratory that enables individuals, unaffiliated with any institution, to use the tools of biotechnology in a shared, co-working, biosafety level one laboratory space, on various biotech projects. He presently teaches CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing workshops that he has designed for the public at Genspace.