Miriam Huntley

Miriam is the CTO and a Co-Founder of Day Zero Diagnostics, a Boston-based genomics startup that was spun out of Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. Day Zero Diagnostics is pioneering a new class of infectious disease diagnostics using whole-genome sequencing and machine learning to develop a rapid and comprehensive diagnostic for bacterial infections. As CTO of the company Miriam leads the development of machine learning and computational biology methods for pathogen genomic data analysis. Miriam has been honored as a TedMed Hive Innovator and a MedTech Boston 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovator. Miriam earned her BSc from MIT in Physics and her Ph.D. in Applied Math at Harvard University. Her doctoral work uncovered fundamental structures in the three-dimensional folded genome, and has been covered widely in the public media by outlets such as NPR and Forbes, and exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum.