Tacos And Tech Podcast

Dawn Barry is President & Co-founder of LunaDNA and former executive of the $40 billion DNA sequencing leader Illumina, which also hails from San Diego. LunaDNA incentivizes the sharing of health and DNA data for research by rewarding people for sharing the data they already own while contributing to medical research and discovery that saves lives. What really sets LunaDNA apart is that people who share their data are able to get shares of ownership in the company, something that’s never been done before. What really sets LunaDNA apart is that people who share their data are able to get shares of ownership in the company, something that’s never been done before. In the last year, Dawn co-founded LunaDNA, which is backed by Illumina Ventures, among other investors. Before cofounding LunaDNA, Dawn - who was was named San Diego Business Journal’s 2017 Business Woman of the Year - rose through the ranks at Illumina, from sales specialists to Vice President of Applied Genomics. There, she integrated market dev