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SynBioBeta 2026. May 4-7, San Jose Convention Centre, California

Meet the AI × Bio companies shaping the next wave of pharma, evaluate their platforms, and start the conversations that turn into partnerships.

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Special Pharma Events Wed May 6 | 12:00 pm: Biopharma VIP Lunch | 5.30 pm: AI Reception.

Special Pharma Events Wed May 6

12:00 pm: Biopharma VIP Lunch

5.30 pm: AI Reception.

AI-native drug discovery. $1B backed by ARCH and Foresite.

AI-native drug discovery. $1B backed by ARCH and Foresite.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne

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Chairman & CEO

AI cancer therapeutics. Spatial biology and virtual cell models.

AI cancer therapeutics. Spatial biology and virtual cell models.

Ron Alfa

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Co-Founder & CEO

GPT-Rosalind life sciences model. AI built for drug discovery and biology.

GPT-Rosalind life sciences model. AI built for drug discovery and biology.

Joy Jiao

Research Lead

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Claude for Life Sciences. Frontier AI for drug discovery and biology research.

Claude for Life Sciences. Frontier AI for drug discovery and biology research.

Eric Kauderer-Abrams

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Head of Biology & Life Sciences

Silicon photonics for protein sequencing. Stanford spinout, DARPA-backed.

Silicon photonics for protein sequencing. Stanford spinout, DARPA-backed.

Jennifer Dionne

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CEO / Professor

AI-powered RNA drug discovery. Targeting the undruggable.

AI-powered RNA drug discovery. Targeting the undruggable.

Raphael Townshend

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Founder & CEO

AlphaFold team alumni. De novo antibody design.

AlphaFold team alumni. De novo antibody design.

Simon Kohl

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Founder & CEO

Virtual cell-signaling models. Designing regenerative therapies.

Virtual cell-signaling models. Designing regenerative therapies.

Micha Breakstone

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Co-founder & CEO

Clinical-stage TechBio. World's largest biological dataset.

Clinical-stage TechBio. World's largest biological dataset.

David Hallett

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CSO

100M single-cell dataset. Powering virtual cell models.

100M single-cell dataset. Powering virtual cell models.

Nima Alidoust

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CEO & Co-founder

100M single-cell dataset. Powering virtual cell models.

100M single-cell dataset. Powering virtual cell models.

Le Cong

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Scientific Co-Founde

Computational drug design at pharma scale. Diabetes, obesity, and rare disease therapies.

Computational drug design at pharma scale. Diabetes, obesity, and rare disease therapies.

Peter Clark

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VP, CDD

100M single-cell dataset. Powering virtual cell models.

100M single-cell dataset. Powering virtual cell models.

Kim Branson

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SVP, Global Head

AI protein design platform. Therapeutics to agriculture.

AI protein design platform. Therapeutics to agriculture.

Elise de Reus

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Co-founder

Open-source biomolecular AI. Structure prediction and drug design.

Open-source biomolecular AI. Structure prediction and drug design.

Gabriele Corso

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CEO

De novo miniprotein design. Immune and allergy targets.

De novo miniprotein design. Immune and allergy targets.

Sharrol Bachas

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Co-founder & CSO

AI-designed AAV capsids for gene therapy. Partnered with Novartis.

AI-designed AAV capsids for gene therapy. Partnered with Novartis.

Eric Kelsic

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CEO

Biomolecular structure prediction. Open-source Chai-1 model.

Biomolecular structure prediction. Open-source Chai-1 model.

Joshua Meier

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CEO & Co-founder

AI drug discovery. Small molecules and biologics.

AI drug discovery. Small molecules and biologics.

Jen Asher

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Founder & CEO

AI co-scientist for life science R&D teams.

AI co-scientist for life science R&D teams.

Generative protein design. Partnered with AstraZeneca and Takeda.

Generative protein design. Partnered with AstraZeneca and Takeda.

Surge Biswas

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Co-founder & CEO

Hyperscaled protein library design and functional screening.

Hyperscaled protein library design and functional screening.

Andrew Chang

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CEO

ML-driven antibody design. Partnered with Lilly and J&J.

ML-driven antibody design. Partnered with Lilly and J&J.

Peyton Greenside

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CEO & Co-Founder

Multiplexed in vivo protein testing. Barcoded biologics.

Multiplexed in vivo protein testing. Barcoded biologics.

Gleb Kuznetsov

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Co-founder & CEO

AI lab for scientific world models. Biology and drug discovery.

AI lab for scientific world models. Biology and drug discovery.

Eric Nguyen

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Co-founder & CEO

Creators of AlphaFold. AI for scientific discovery.

Creators of AlphaFold. AI for scientific discovery.

Divy Thakkar

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Senior Program Manager Lead

Silicon-chip DNA synthesis. Powering drug discovery and synthetic biology.

Silicon-chip DNA synthesis. Powering drug discovery and synthetic biology.

Emily Leproust

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CEO

BioNeMo platform. AI infrastructure powering drug discovery at scale.

BioNeMo platform. AI infrastructure powering drug discovery at scale.

Anthony Costa

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Director, Digital Biology

Physics + ML for small-molecule drug discovery. Rooted in OpenMM.

Physics + ML for small-molecule drug discovery. Rooted in OpenMM.

Theofanis Karaletsos

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Co-founder

iPSC-derived human tissue platform. Scalable data for a biological simulator.

iPSC-derived human tissue platform. Scalable data for a biological simulator.

Matthew Osman

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CEO and Co-Founder

Cellular rejuvenation and health. Computational biology at unprecedented scale.

Cellular rejuvenation and health. Computational biology at unprecedented scale.

Simone Bianco

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VP, Physics, Molecular & Hybrid Modeling

AI-first protein design. Creators of OpenCRISPR, fully AI-designed gene editors.

AI-first protein design. Creators of OpenCRISPR, fully AI-designed gene editors.

Ali Madani

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CEO

Enzymatic DNA synthesis. The complex sequences others can't make.

Enzymatic DNA synthesis. The complex sequences others can't make.

Jason Gammack

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CEO

Computational protein design. Designer enzymes at commercial scale.

Computational protein design. Designer enzymes at commercial scale.

Alexandre Zanghellini

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Co-founder & CEO

Egg-based bioreactors for biologics manufacturing.

Egg-based bioreactors for biologics manufacturing.

Samuel Levin

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Co-Founder & CTO

Fruit-fly biomanufacturing for hard-to-express proteins.

Fruit-fly biomanufacturing for hard-to-express proteins.

Matt Anderson-Baron

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CEO

AI bioprocess data platform for biomanufacturing.

AI bioprocess data platform for biomanufacturing.

Ori Zakin

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CEO