Pamela Silver is a Co-founder and an Advisor at 64x Bio. She is the Elliot T and Onie H Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Co-founder and Board Member of iGEM.org. 

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She was a founding member of the Department of Systems Biology and served as its first Graduate Program Director. Her lab develops synthetic cells that act as sensors, memory devices, bio-computers, producers of high value commodities and energy from the sun, and novel subsystems such as proteins with designed properties for therapeutic use. Her recent innovations include bacteria that can sense and respond to gut inflammation and the Bionic Leaf, which couples sunlight capture to bioproduction at an efficiency exceeding plants. 

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Pamela is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the NIH MERIT Award. She has served on editorial boards including Biology and Genes & Development, and has been recognized with the BIO2007 Innovation Award, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and the Joseph Henry Lectureship. She has been named a top 20 Global Synthetic Biology Influencer and one of the top 300 people in the Bioeconomy.