Ingrid Swanson Pultz

Chief Technology Officer, Mopac Biologics

Ingrid is Chief Scientific Officer and a Founder at PvP Biologics, Inc. She received her Ph.D. degree in microbiology with Dr. Samuel Miller at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle and performed her postdoctoral work in computational enzyme design with Dr. David Baker at the UW, before accepting a faculty position as a Translational Investigator at the Institute for Protein Design (IPD). At the IPD, Dr. Pultz’s lab developed Kuma062, an enzyme meant as a therapeutic for celiac disease, that was based on a prototype molecule initially generated for the iGEM undergraduate competition for which Dr. Pultz was an advisor. PvP Biologics was founded to pursue the clinical development of Kuma062, and led by Dr. Pultz until spinout from the UW in late 2016. She now acts as head of the PvP Laboratory based in Seattle, and works with the PvP Development Team located in San Diego. Dr. Pultz has received several awards including an Innovator of the Year award from the Seattle Health Innovation Forum.