Lucas Nivon

Biography

Lucas is trained in computational biophysics and protein engineering. Prior to Cyrus he was a Translational Investigator & Senior Fellow at the Baker lab at UW, developing small-molecule binding proteins and protein design algorithms. Lucas is the founder of PedalAnywhere, a national bike rental startup.  Harvard A.B., Biochemical Sciences (summa cum laude and Goldwater Scholar) and Ph.D., Biophysics; Hertz Fellow.

Research Interest

Lucas’ scientific work includes a patented computationally designed enzyme, an RNA-dynamics-modeling software toolkit, and algorithm optimization for automation of computational protein design.