Gus Zeiner
CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. | University of California Los Angeles
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I CHOSE CHIMERA BECAUSE
Our Team, our Science, and our Mission.
MY SCIENCE IDOLS
Vannevar Bush, Roy Parker, Joan Steitz, Carl June, Sohail Tavazoie, and Erika Pearce
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HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
Mountain Biking
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Dr. Gusti Zeiner is CSO and co-founder of Chimera where he applies his scientific expertise to address the challenges patients face in current treatment paradigms. Prior to his role at Chimera, Gus was a scientist at Agilent Laboratories, pioneering
next generation RNA-seq and CRISPR-Cas9 methods, and a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford. He is a renowned scientist in the varied fields of RNA biology, gene regulation and molecular parasitology. Gus received his BS in Molecular Biology from University of Oregon and his PhD in Molecular Biology and Immunology from UCLA.