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Ron Boger is Venture Partner at Compound, based in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Ron Boger is a Venture Partner at Compound and a Graduate Student Researcher in the Doudna lab at UC Berkeley, based in Berkeley, California. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University between 2013 and 2017, where he also co-founded the medical hackathon MedHacks. Prior to his current academic pursuits, Boger served as a Tech Lead at X, formerly Google X, directing biotechnology and artificial intelligence projects, and worked as a Machine Learning Scientist at System1 Biosciences, now Herophilus. Since September 2022, his doctoral research has focused on the intersection of computational biology and CRISPR-Cas systems, resulting in published papers on protein homology detection and RNA-guided endonucleases. His career centers on leveraging machine learning to advance functional protein mining and therapeutic discovery within the biotechnology sector.