Alex Ng is a co-founder and chief scientific officer at GCTx, and co-invented GCTx’s core TFome™ technology.  Alex is a pioneer in cell programming technologies and has developed many core synthetic biology approaches that have been published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science and Cell family publications. With over a decade of experience in the field of synthetic biology and stem cells, he is a co-inventor on many issued or pending patents and has been invited to present at numerous top international and national conferences, including ISSCR, Keystone Symposia, the Human Genome Project: Write. He received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Templeton Independent Fellowship, Carolyn & Peter Lynch Fellowship and NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Fellowship, and has been featured by media outlets such as CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC news, Der Spiegel, Nature Biotechnology, Harvard Gazette, among others.

He is a Canadian raised in Vancouver, BC and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BSc(Hons) in biochemistry and statistics. He moved to Cambridge, Mass. for his Ph.D. at Harvard University with Prof. George Church, where he co-invented the TFome™ technology, and postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Michael Elowitz at Caltech.