Full Name
Oscar Alvizo
Job Title
Director, Computational Biology
Company
Codexis
Speaker Bio
Oscar Alvizo is the Director of Computational Biology at Codexis and heads the Structural Biology group and the CodeEvolver software engineering, team. In his twelve-year tenure at Codexis, he has been listed as an inventor in over eighty granted patents worldwide for his contributions in the field of directed evolution. He leads the R&D efforts for some of Codexis largest pharma partners and spearheads the transfer of the CodeEvolver technology to licensees. Oscar was co-recipient of the Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the EPA for his participation in the engineering of the LovD enzyme used in the manufacturing of Simvastatin. He received his PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Caltech for his work on Computational Protein Design.
Oscar Alvizo