Meet our team and advisors

Data scientist / molecular methods hacker, demonstrated capability to scale

CEO, Co-founder

Former lead of Recursion’s digital chemistry team

CTO, Co-founder

Scientist turned strategist who takes a hands on approach to business development, corporate strategy and capital formation

Head of BD and Strategy

Laboratory data generation and automation expert with over two decades of experience

Head of Operations

Protein biochemist and protein expression specialist with over 2 decades of experience

Senior Director, Small Molecule Discovery

Multi-talented biochemist specializing in DNA Encoded Libraries (DEL) for drug discovery and next-gen sequencing

Scientist

Data science and startup junkie curating ML-quality datasets and developing tools for data visualization and process automation

Associate Data Scientist

Medicinal chemist focused on identifying and advancing chemical material from Leash's proprietary platform

Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry

Molecular biologist with 20+ years of laboratory experience spanning dozens of assays across multiple fields in biology and chemistry

Senior Research Associate

Software engineer with over decade of experience at innovative tech start ups

Software Engineer

High scoring BELKA competitor excited to continue working on applying machine learning to small molecule discovery

Machine Learning Intern

Supported by world-class biotech and AI advisors

Proven R&D leader with almost 35 years experience in Pharma and BioTech, including at Array, Pfizer & Somalogic

Nicholas Saccomano, PhD

Ex-CSO, Pfizer

Pioneer in leveraging DNA Encoded Libraries (DEL) for drug discovery

Raphael Franzini, PhD

Associate professor, University of Utah

Genome Biologist who employed and developed high-throughput sequencing and biochemical techniques

Sven Heinz, PhD

Assistant professor, UCSD

Investors:

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