Jen Greenstein, Ph.D., is Senior Director on the Focused Initiatives Team at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, where she works on strategic efforts to strengthen North Carolina’s life sciences ecosystem. Her work focuses on areas central to North Carolina’s bioeconomy, including industrial biotech, biomanufacturing, agtech, food tech, and defense-relevant life sciences innovation.
Jen identifies trends and opportunities that align with North Carolina’s strengths and convenes partners to develop strategies that support company growth, sector development, and long-term ecosystem impact. Her current work applies North Carolina’s life sciences ecosystem-building model to industrial biotech by advancing public-private partnerships, scale-up capacity, and coordinated approaches that help companies move bioindustrial technologies toward deployment.
Jen joined NCBiotech in 2020 on the Emerging Company Development team, where she supported startups and entrepreneurs, led the agtech loan program, and developed systems to track investor and company engagement.
She holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and a Professional Science Master’s in Microbial Biotechnology from North Carolina State University, as well as bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.