Kenya is the Founding Director of WPI-Bio2Q, Japan’s first and largest microbiome research institute. His work has appeared in Nature (31 times), Cell (15 times), and Science (7 times).

Award-winning industrial designer turned entrepreneur, Simon built the most disruptive oral care company of the past decade. His products have reached 10M+ consumers and driven $100M+ in annual revenue.

B invented advanced CRISPR base editors under David Liu at Harvard University, and now focuses on developing novel synthetic biology tools in non-model microbes.