HARMONIC DISCOVERY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Data Science and Head of European Operations
Dr. Anna Cichonska, PhD, is Harmonic Discovery's Director of Data Science and Head of European Operations. Dr. Cichonska completed her PhD at Aalto University and the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine in computational biology and machine learning. She is an expert in the development of machine learning models to predict kinase-ligand interactions.
Job Titles:
- Student in Computational Chemistry at University
Carmen Al-Masri is a PhD student in Computational Chemistry at University of California Irvine.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of Molecular Pharmacology at the Sloan Kettering Institute
- Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, is an oncologist and expert in blood and solid tumors. Dr. Abdel Wahab is the Chair of Molecular Pharmacology at the Sloan Kettering Institute and Director, MSK Center for Hematologic Malignancies.
Job Titles:
- Expert
- Professor of Molecular Informatics at Cambridge University
- Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Andreas Bender is leading expert in medicinal chemistry and cheminformatics. Dr. Bender is a Professor of Molecular Informatics at Cambridge University and CSO of Terra Lumina. Previously he was Associate Director of Computational ADME and Safety at AstraZeneca and at co-founder of HealX.
Dr. Francesco Trozzi, PhD, is a part of Harmonic Discovery's computational chemistry team. Dr. Trozzi received his PhD from SMU where he studied the mechanism of protein allostery in LOV Domains and ACE2 PD via molecular dynamics and machine learning.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Co - Founder
- Founder
Dr. Jason Lee, MD, is a co-founder and COO of Harmonic Discovery. Dr. Lee completed his medical training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously he was a life science investor at OrbiMed, and performed business development duties at Pacira Pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Joel Dudley is an expert in biomedical data science, computational biology and machine learning. He currently is a partner at Innovation Endeavors. Previously he was Chief Scientific Officer at Tempus Labs, and executive Vice President and Associate Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He was also the co-founder of companies such as Onegevity Health and Numedii.
Dr. Juhi Somani, PhD, is part of the Computational Biology Team at Harmonic Discovery. Dr. Somani completed her PhD in computational biology at the University of Helsinki and is an expert in transcriptomics and metabolomics.
Job Titles:
- Chief Scientific Officer
- Co - Founder
- Founder
Dr. Marcel Patek, PhD, is a co-founder and CSO of Harmonic Discovery. Dr. Patek is an industry veteran with over 25+ years of experience in drug discovery. Previously he was the Director of Chemistry at Sanofi and the Vice President of chemistry at ICAGEN.
Dr. Michael Moret, PhD completed his PhD in molecular machine learning at ETH Zurich. He is currently a post-doc at the George Church Lab at Harvard
Dr. Oliver Elemento, PhD, is an expert in biomedical data science and systems biology for drug discovery. Dr. Elemento is a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. He is also the founder of venture-backed startups such as Volastra Therapeutics and Onethree Biotech.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Co - Founder
- Founder
Dr. Rayees Rahman, PhD, is a co-founder and CEO of Harmonic Discovery. Dr. Rahman completed his PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he developed machine learning approaches to characterize the 3D structure of protein kinases and their inhibitors.
Dr. Guru Ravikumar, PhD, is Harmonic Discovery's Director of Chemical Informatics. Dr. Ravikumar completed his PhD at the University of Helsinki where he developed several computational chemogenomic approaches to study the polypharmacology of kinase inhibitors.
Inan Khan is a Masters student in Bioinformatics at New York University.
Jason Lin is a BS student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Job Titles:
- Student in Machine Learning
Katalina Biondi is a PhD student in Machine Learning the University of Southern Florida.
Ryan Theisen is part of the Machine Learning team at Harmonic Discovery. He is currently completing his PhD in Theoretical Machine Learning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Tero Aittokallio, PhD, is an expert in statistical and predictive drug response modeling. He is professor and group leader at the Institute for Cancer Research at Oslo University Hospital and a group leader at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland.
Job Titles:
- Kinase - Driven Cancer Biology