Mac is the Founder and CEO of Minicircle, driving our organization’s long-term vision, trajectory and strategy. A true pioneer in biotech, Mac is intent on pushing the boundaries of medicine and technology to challenge disease and death. Having received plasmid gene therapy himself, Mac believes it’s the future of healthcare.

Intuitive innovations — like language, the printing press, or computers — have revealed new and exciting possibilities for humankind throughout history. Mac sees gene therapy as a powerful key to unlocking our next phase of evolution, allowing us to relieve pain and suffering while finding more ways to connect with each other and create a better world. One day, Mac hopes, Minicircle gene therapy will be as accessible as Aspirin.

Prior to founding Minicircle, Mac was the founder of Prophase Biostudios, a nonprofit open-access biotechnology research and entrepreneurship training laboratory that spurred a culture of innovation and biotech entrepreneurship in Austin, Texas. Mac studied chemistry and physics at the University of North Carolina Pembroke, where he met Walter Patterson, who now serves as the Chief Scientific Officer and President at Minicircle.