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Eugene Choi

President, Chief Operating Officer

Dr. Choi has worked on Pharmacy on Demand (PoD) since its inception at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he led the government technical oversight team for the PoD and Bio-MOD projects. Dr. Choi was directly involved in the chemical synthesis development for all APIs that PoD has made, and in the design and build of the PoD systems. He launched the Medicines for All Institute in 2017 to improve access to affordable medicines by developing lower-cost chemical processes for active pharmaceutical ingredients. As Executive Director of Medicines for All, Dr. Choi defined organizational priorities, led strategic direction, and positioned the Institute as a sustainable entity. Dr. Choi has a passion for data analytics in the medicine manufacturing and supply chain and has focused on bridging interfaces between science and engineering, spanning research in materials science, molecular biology, chemical & biomedical engineering and instrumentation development. Dr. Choi earned his PhD in Polymers and Biomaterials from the University of Akron College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering and was a Postdoc Fellow at the National Institutes of Health.