Chance Elliott Email Address

Vice President Research and Development

Amyris Biotechnologies creates renewable products, focusing on fuels and chemicals.

Life sciences leader passionate about the application of Automation, Data Science and Industrial Engineering to R&D. I am a builder of technology, systems, pipelines and organizations. My goal is to make research faster, reproducible and more deterministic. Expert in organizational design. I know exactly what it takes to operationalize new technology, how to organize teams and how to create high functioning R&D pipelines. Expert in the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of large scale automated robotic systems and instrumentation for Synthetic Biology, High-Throughput Screening and Drug Discovery. Expert in the application of data systems to workflow management, workflow execution and data analysis allowing researchers to focus their mental capacity on solving complex problems rather than on mining data and managing laboratory logistics.