Bio

Hi! I’m Carlos. I am a Venezuelan American 🇻🇪🇺🇸scientist, executive, and academic. My passion is a accelerating genomic discoveries in understudied human populations. I am the founder and CEO of Galatea Bio, where we use genomics and data science to drive precision health at scale for all. We are a global company initially focused on understudied populations from the Americas including African and African-American, Hispanic/Latino, and indigenous populations. I am so thrilled to be devoting the next phase of my career to this amazing effort. I have lead teams at the interface of genomics, data science, and global health at Cornell (2002-2009), Stanford (2010-2022), and in the private sector (2021-). Aside from running Bustamante Lab and Galatea Bio, I co-founded the Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics (2012-2016) and was the inaugural Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford Medicine (2016-2019). I have taught at U. Miami since 2017 and work with the entrepreneurship and technology groups at Miami Herbert Business School. Since 2021, I've been an advisor to Miami Dade Community College serving on the BioScience Advisory Committee. Since 2019, I have been a Venture Partner at F/Prime Capital where we initially incubated Galatea Bio. Please reach out and see how we can collaborate and work together!