Gjino Šutić is a biotechnologist, medicinal chemist, postmodern new media artist, biohacker, innovator, and educator. He is the founder and director of the Universal Research Institute (UR Institute, HR) since 2013, and the founder and director of the company Gen0 Industries d.o.o. – for the development and production of innovative technologies since 2014. He is also the president of the Association of Innovators of Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia since 2020. Šutić works as a multidisciplinary researcher and producer of projects in the fields of experimental biotechnology, hybrid and biological art, electronics, biological and chemical engineering, often promoting DIY innovative practices. Recent achievements include the production of the EU projects Dubrovnik Postmodern (VR culture and art), STARTS4Water (art and new technologies in water conservation), and a gold medal at the ARCA 2022 innovation fair for a synthetic molecule with potential pharmaceutical use developed in silico using chemoinformatic and VR tools.
