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Founding Team

Dr. Rebecca C. Vaught
Founder and CEO of Van Heron Labs. She earned her PhD in Evolutionary Genetics from Monash University. She has 10+ years of industry and research experience and specializes in molecular biology, microbiology, biochemistry, genetics, evolutionary biology, and genomics. She is currently a board member at BIOAlabama and an advisor for BioDAO, FutureFoodsDAO and Fractal Foods.

Dr. Alec M. Santiago
Alec is a co-founding partner of Van Heron Labs. He earned his PhD in Microbiology, and Molecular Genetics at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He has 10+ years of industry and research experience and specializes in biochemistry, molecular biology, and microbiology. He was named Top 100 LatinX Founder to Watch for 2022. He is an SMDP Biotechnology scholar and previously served as an Executive Director at Enventure.
Operations Team
VHL operations are supported by over a dozen team members spanning a range of disciplines and a diverse group of industry mentors.