William Busa is a co-founder of EvE Bio. He holds a PhD in biological science from the University of California, Davis, where he elucidated a mechanism underlying certain animal embryos ability to survive profound and prolonged dormancy - work leading to his election as a Fellow of the AAAS. Following a first career in academia at The Johns Hopkins University studying signal transduction biology, Bill served as the founding Chief Scientific Officer of the biotech tools company, Cellomics, the originator of high content screening technology for pharmaceutical drug discovery. Bill next built and led a cell and tissue technologies product development organization at Becton Dickinson, and later became an independent business and product development consultant to the biotechnology tools industry. In his spare time Bill facilitates the conversion of sunlight and tempests into fleet-footed steeds on his farm in Durham County.