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Founding Stories: SwitchBack Systems
Mary Noe has been obsessed with DNA synthesis for over 25 years, as an undergrad, graduate student, and during her work in the biotech industry. As a result of her work, her goal became how to design and build a tool to make the best DNA synthesis in the world. Mary saw the biology revolution coming and what was needed to achieve its promise. “Every platform I was working on was not scalable to meet the future market need,” she said. Mary knew what approaches to DNA synthesis worked and didn’t. She leveraged her understanding to create a scalable, cost efficient, new DNA synthesis platform.

Mary Noe, PhD
Innovator
"GI has been on the whole ride with me."

Paul Conley, PhD
General Inception
"I met Mary when she had a great idea backed by exceptional experience."
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