Patrick Boyle is Interim Chief Scientific Officer at ATCC and a Founding Partner at American Wetware, a design studio for biology. A bioengineer with more than 20 years of experience, he applies design, computation, and automation to commercialize biology and advises companies on scientific strategy.

Patrick was an early employee at Ginkgo Bioworks, where he helped design and scale the company's core platform for engineering organisms—turning foundational research into commercial products across pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology. As Ginkgo's first Chief Scientific Officer, he led teams that shipped production biological systems for Fortune 500 partners. 

He was a fellow of the Johns Hopkins Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Program and served on the Board on Life Sciences at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He holds a PhD from Harvard Medical School and a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT.