Team
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Linda Chio Senior Scientist, Vector Engineering Linda owns Gordian’s viral vector development and production. She joined us after a PhD at UC Berkeley.
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Chris Towne VP, Preclinical Research and Gene Therapy Towny’s long career in AAV gene therapy took him from Australia to EPFL and Stanford. He oversees preclinical gene therapy at Gordian.
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Chris Carrico Senior Scientist, Single Cell Carrico bridges our molecular and data science efforts, taking on special projects across our platform. PhD at UWashington, Postdoc at the Buck.
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Martin Borch Jensen CSO Martin guides our strategy to eliminate age-related disease, after giving up a K99 fellowship at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
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Francisco LePort CEO Company dad (and the team’s first actual dad), Francisco has a PhD in physics and was the AI brains & CSO at Tachyus.
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Ian Driver Head of Bioinformatics Ian has been single-cell sequencing since the Fluidigm days, and makes our data magic happen. Previously led scSeq at Amgen.
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Daniel Fuentes Senior Scientist, Molecular Biologist Dan designs & clones big screening libraries, and the secret technology that makes them work. He joined Gordian after a PhD at Stanford.
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Hikaru Miyazaki Scientist, Single Cell Hikaru controls the flow of data at Gordian, coordinating the entire process of turning tissues into bits. Her UCSF PhD was with Klein/Gartner.
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Alex Araki Research Associate, In Vivo Alex performs animal surgeries and gene therapy experiments. He was previously a genome engineer with Krishanu Saha in Wisconsin.
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Smitha Shambhu Research Associate, Single Cell Smitha joins us from a Master’s at UCF, where she studied microbial genomics. At Gordian she’s part of the single cell sequencing team.
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Bharath Kumandan VP, Operations Bharath oversees everything from finding new Gors to our lab operations. He joins us with experience from Aligos Tx, J&J, and Alios Biopharma.
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Vishwa Sontake Head of Lung Biology Vishwa has been attacking pulmonary fibrosis from every biological angle, and now leads our IPF discovery program.
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Neety Sahu Head of Osteoarthritis Biology Neety is leading Gordian’s OA discovery program, after an academic career in orthopedic medicine.
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Vinay Kartha Senior Scientist, Computational Biology Probing single-cell states across modalities, Vinay has been developing methodologies to better-quantify and interpret our screens. He joins us after completing a Postdoc from the Buenrostro lab at the Broad Institute.
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Nino Solano Associate Manager, Facilities Nino bring his years of experience from MBC Biolabs over to Gordian to help keep the lab and building operations running smoothly.
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Dimitry Popov Senior Data Engineer Dimitry is the central hub for Gordian’s data, and has been writing and managing software, bioinformatics pipelines and databases for a decade.
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Chase Bowman Research Associate, Vector Engineering Chase supports vector production in Gordian’s gene therapy team, enabling all our experimental work.
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Carmen Le Research Associate, Assay Development A master’s degree in biology gave Carmen the skills to support multiple disease programs at Gordian.
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Lianna Fung Scientist, Molecular Biology Joining us from a PhD at UC Irvine, Lianna brings her genetic engineering and RNA imaging skills to bear on Gordian’s technology.
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Jingshu Chen Scientist, Single Cell Jingshu is applying her years of experience at Harvard Medical School and Texas A&M to isolate and analyze single cells from various organs.
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Jesi Nonora Research Associate, In Vivo Jesi minds the mice and rats, joining us from supporting labs at In Vivo Technologies.
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Arnav Gupta Senior Data Analyst, Computational Biology Joining us as after completing his MS in Computational Biology at CMU, Arnav supports all operations of Data Team, with a focus on Deep Learning in Human Genomics.
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Barrett Hansen Associate Manager, People Operations Barrett comes to us with a background in recruiting for large tech companies and has eagerly jumped into the world of life sciences! She leads our People Operations and Recruiting Efforts.
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Sophia Ruiz Animal Care Technician, In Vivo Background in animal science, deals with daily husbandry tasks for our mice and rats, making sure they are as happy and healthy as can be.
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Joanne Hsieh Head of Liver Biology Joanne is our resident NASH aficionado who leads our Liver Program and is on a mission to make the liver healthier. She comes to us from Columbia University where she studied gastrointestinal metabolism.
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Naoto Muraoka Head of Cardiac Biology Naoto leads our heart program and is an expert in all things HFpEF. He comes to us from University of Washington where he was an acting instructor. With both a Phd and MD focusing on cardiology/cardiovascular disease he has valuable experience to help us push our heart program forward.
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Amber Lim Research Associate, Single Cell Amber supports our downstream efforts to analyze target effects, leveraging single cell isolation and sequencing! She joins us with prior research experience at Stanford University and as a genome engineer with Donald Kohn at UCLA.
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Gavin Pharaoh Scientist, In Vivo Gavin brings his expertise in pre-clinical intervention studies in age-related diseases to Gordian. He joined us after a PhD at OMRF and postdoc at UW.
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Shengping Wang Senior Scientist, Preclinical Research Shengping validates hits to cure MASH. She comes with >20 years experience in drug discovery at Merck and JNJ. She has extensive in vivo skills in designing, executing in vivo studies, utilizing drug platforms that range from small molucules, antibody, and siRNAs for obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis, MASH, GA
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Katie Doroschak Data Engineer Katie is engineering our data pipelines. After years of accidentally becoming the “code person” on various research teams, she’s leaning into the bioinformatics side. She joins us with a CSE PhD from UW.
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Kelly Fagan Scientist, Vector Engineering Kelly works on the vector team to produce viral vectors necessary for experiments across Gordian. She joins us following a PhD from UPenn focused on gene therapy.
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Kristien Van Vlasselaer Head of Research and Development Operations Kristien is a proud generalist who leverages her neuroscience PhD, diverse life science consulting experience, and passion for biotech startup excellence to lead Gordian’s R&D operations and support our excellent research scientists as they turn novel ideas into impactful therapies.
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Diego Garcia Apprentice, Vector Engineering Diego splits his time across two teams here at Gordian, as he works alongside the vector production and Ex Vivo assay teams, joining us after a Bioengineering BS at Santa Clara
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Juana Cruz Sampedro Apprentice, Molecular Biology Juana works with the Molecular Biology team to bring gene therapies from ideas to tangible constructs. She holds a Bioengineering BS from Berkeley and experience in DNA editors and sc-RNA seq analysis at the Innovative Genomics Institute and UCSF, respectively.
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Arthi Vaidyanathan Apprentice, Single Cell Arthi supports Gordian’s single cell sequencing team, using both wet lab and data analysis skills. She joins as after a BS in Bioengineering from Berkeley.
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Gayathri Donepudi Apprentice, Bioinformatics Gayathri focuses on making sense of our complex single cell datasets. She joins us with a BS in Bioinformatics from UCSD.
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Samuel Hayward Scientist, Molecular Biology Sam is a CRISPR screening expert with a PhD from Columbia University. He brings a decade of gene editing experience to the Gordian team.
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Adelaida Alonso Animal Care Technician, In Vivo Adel has comes to us with an extensive and diverse background in Animal husbandy, vivarium operations and technical in-vivo skills. She is passionate about giving animals a second chance at life to make impactful changes for medicine advancement.
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At Gordian Biotechnology, we are on a mission to cure age-related disease, allowing people to lead longer, healthier lives and wake up every morning, more capable than the day before.