Jacob Eli Gunn Glanville is an American computational immunoengineer and businessperson. He is co-founder and chief executive officer of the start-up company Distributed Bio and its spin-out, Centivax. Glanville was featured in the documentary series '' Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak''. Glanville was born in

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and raised in Guatemala to American expatriate parents. His mother is an artist and his father an inn keeper. In 2007, Glanville graduated from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

where he studied Genetics, Genomics, and Development in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program and conducted research in the Glenys Thomsom HLA population genetics laboratory and Kimmen Sjolander Berkeley Phylogenomics group. In 2008, he joined

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and was promoted to staff scientist four years later. In 2012, Glanville founded Distributed Bio and became the first Computational and Systems Immunology Ph.D. candidate at

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. He completed his doctorate in 2017. His doctoral advisors were Scott D. Boyd and

Mark M. Davis Mark Morris Davis (born 27 November 1952) ForMemRS is director and Avery Family Professor of Immunology in the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection at Stanford University. Education Davis was educated at Johns Hopkins University ...

. Glanville's dissertation was titled ''Reading the adaptive receptor repertoires''. Microbiologist Sarah Ives is his research co-lead at Distributed Bio on the influenza project featured in '' Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak''.

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Jacob Glanville was interviewed on Checkpoint, Radio New Zealand 31 March 2020

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