Prof. Timothy K. Lu, also known as Tim, M.D., Ph.D., is a Scientific Founder at BiomX Ltd. Prof. Lu is a Co-Founder at Synlogic, Inc. Prof. Lu serves as an Advisor of Goodman Capital Limited. Prof. Lu was a Co-founder of Sample6, Inc. and serves as its Director. Prof. Lu has been the Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board of AmpliPhi Biosciences Corporation since February 23, 2017. He serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT in the Synthetic Biology group as well as Associate fellow at the Broad Institute. He is also a core member of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center and a Co-Founder of multiple biotechnology companies that develop innovative diagnostic and therapeutic technologies for human health. In addition to his scientific work, he participated in several software and biomedical startup companies. He was selected as one of 35 young innovators under 35 by MIT's Technology Review, as well as awarded the 2008 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize and the 2008 National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition Grand Prize for his work on engineered bacteriophage for the treatment of intractable bacterial infections. Prof. Lu is a recipient of the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award, the Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award, the NIH New Innovator Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award, among others. Prof. Lu graduated from MIT with SB and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and with a PhD from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering.