Dr. Margaux Pinney

Biography

Margaux Pinney completed her B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Washington in 2014, followed by an M.S. in Medicine at Stanford University from 2014 to 2018. She earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Stanford University between 2014 and 2021. After her doctoral studies, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University from 2021 to 2022. Following this, she served as a Sandler Fellow and Principal Investigator at the University of California, San Francisco from 2022 until 2025. Margaux has been awarded the NIH Early Independence Award in 2022 and is set to take on the role of Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley starting July 1, 2025. Her research focuses on chemical biology, high-throughput biochemistry, microfluidics, and evolutionary biochemistry, particularly in enzyme functional prediction and engineering. She aims to develop high-throughput, microfluidic-based methods to measure key biochemical constants across thousands of protein variants in a single experiment, as well as studying protein function, evolution, and drug resistance mutations.

Research Interests