Peter Girguis awarded disruptive technology solutions funding
Peter Girguis is one of five Harvard faculty awarded funding from Harvard Grid Accelerator for work that will de-risk promising ideas and aid in launching startups.
A team advised by Professor Girguis has already demonstrated the ability of large language models (LLMs) to decode the language of genomes. With Grid Accelerators support, they will scale up the training of LLMs to include the full spectrum of genomic sequences from the human gut, sewage treatment plants, and other systems. They anticipate the launch of a gene discovery startup that will produce engineerable gene modules and commercially relevant products such as novel enzymes for bioremediation and biomaterial synthesis.
The Grid is a collaboration between the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Office of Technology Development (OTD).