GEOFF DUYK M.D., Ph.D.
Founder and Managing Partner, Circularis LP
Dr. Geoff Duyk is the Vice Chairman of the Innovatus Life Sciences Advisory Board. He is the founder and Managing Partner of Circularis LP, a group focused on supporting technology-enabled companies that advance the circular economy and promote sustainability as well as resource efficiency.
Prior to Circularis, Dr. Duyk was the Managing Director and Partner of TPG Alternative & Renewable Technologies/TPG Biotechnology from 2004 to 2017. Prior to TPG, Dr. Duyk served on the Board of Directors and was President of Research and Development at Exelixis. Prior to Exelixis, he was one of the founding scientific staff at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and served as Vice President of Genomics. Prior to his tenure at Millennium, Dr. Duyk was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) in the Department of Genetics and an Assistant Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. While at HMS, Dr. Duyk was a Co-Principal Investigator in the National Institutes of Health-funded Cooperative Human Linkage Center.
Dr. Duyk holds a doctorate and medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his medical and fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco. While at UCSF, Dr. Duyk was a fellow of the Lucille P. Markey Foundation and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from HHMI.
Dr. Duyk currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amyris (Nasdaq: AMRS), Concentric Agriculture and Regen Holdings. He is a former member of the Board of Directors and the executive committee for the American Society of Human Genetics and currently serves on its finance and investment committees. He is a trustee of Case Western Reserve University, where he chairs the finance committee and sits on the executive committee. He is a member of the Institute Board of Directors of the Moffitt Cancer Center, where he chairs the research and development committee. He has also served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards for Bayer Crop Sciences, Jackson Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Energy.