Dr. Lencer, a co-founder of Syntonix, is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School where his laboratory focuses on epithelial cell biology. He is also Director of the Combined Program in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Children’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Co-Director of the Harvard Digestive Diseases Center. Dr. Lencer received the Samuel Meltzer award for basic research in gastroenterology and is an elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He has published over 55 refereed scientific articles. Dr. Lencer received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine.