A former NASA computer scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco,[1] where she is the Director of Bioentrepreneurship, where her work on BioTech Nation dovetails with academic, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of moving scientific breakthroughs on the lab bench through to the commercial products.

Media contact information is available on the Tech Nation website Academically, Bioentrepreneurship courses are throughout the university as they require the successful collaboration of multi-disciplinary expertise.

Gunn's graduate courses include: Legal-Social-Ethical Impact of Biotech, Global & US Regulatory Affairs, Bioinnovation Management, and Local-National-Global Bioenterprise, as well as study tours to leading global bioclusters, including Washington, DC, London-Oxford-Cambridge, Switzerland, Ireland/Northern Ireland, Australia, Montreal/Quebec, Puerto Rico and San Diego.

Moira Gunn was born on Staten Island, New York, and moved with her family to California at the age of 10, settling in Menlo Park, just as Silicon Valley was becoming prominent, and Sand Hill Road was open space - now the haunt of world-renowned venture capitalists.

Technology start-ups were everywhere, and even decades later, the Gunn family's bungalow on Santa Margarita Avenue was just three doors down from another modest home, this one owned by Susan Wojcicki, who rented her garage to Sergey Brin and Larry Page as Google's first office.