Sierra Brooks
Sierra is a Senior Scientist and Analyst at SOSV, where she is responsible for sourcing and performing due diligence on new companies, as well as for supporting existing portfolio companies to grow their value. Sierra works closely with a subset of the SOSV portfolio focused on breakthrough food technologies, including novel supplements for consumers rolling off of GLP-1's, as well as biomanufacturing platforms to make gut healthy alternative sweeteners from dairy waste.
Sierra completed her BS in Chemical-Biological Engineering at MIT, where she worked in three different research labs to help develop platforms spanning extended-release drug delivery systems, on-demand protein biomanufacturing, and electroreduction of CO2 to fuels. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. During her PhD, she leveraged advancements at the interface of metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and materials science to develop Engineered Living Materials with broad applications in distributed biomanufacturing and in situ drug delivery. Motivated to translate cutting edge scientific developments outside of the lab, Sierra also consulted for several biotech and climatetech startups in the Austin area, where she lead efforts in scale up and technology commercialization.
Sessions
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Workshop: GLP-1 Innovation Lab20-Mar-2026Main Stage
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