Christopher Reyes, PhD, currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Bloom Science, a company he co-founded that has a stated mission to develop novel therapeutics for patients with rare and complex neurological and metabolic disorders. He is a biophysicist and entrepreneur with a passion for creating solutions to improve our health, environment and economic sustainability. Prior to Bloom Science, he served as global head and VP of Biologics at Bionomics. He co-founded and served as CSO and Director at Eclipse Therapeutics, a spin-out of Biogen IDEC, prior to its acquisition; and Scientist at Biogen-IDEC. Dr. Reyes has a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco and B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology, Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Reyes was a postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Reyes is a member of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science.