Dr. Janine Sengstack is a cell biologist and entrepreneur advancing therapeutics for age-related disease. During her PhD at UC San Francisco (UCSF), Janine created a discovery platform to find transcription factor targets for age-related disease. Janine was a finalist in the Nucleate Activator Program, receiving the Scientific Excellence Award. Janine was a Hillblom Graduate Fellow and received support from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and the Illumina/UCSF Sequencing Partnership Grant. Before UCSF, Janine worked in microbiology at Genentech. She graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with her BS in Biology, summa cum laude, and was high school valedictorian out of 400 students.