SynBioBeta Speaker
John Chodera
Co-founder & CEO
Achira Labs
May 2026, SynBioBeta
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John Chodera is co-founder and CEO of Achira, developing foundational simulation models for drug discovery. For over a decade, he led a lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center pioneering hybrid physics–machine learning approaches for autonomous drug discovery, collaborating with industry to develop methods that advance real programs. He has created widely used open-source tools—such as OpenMM, which powered breakthroughs like AlphaFold—and co-founded major open science initiatives including the Open Force Field Consortium, OpenBind, OpenADMET, the COVID Moonshot, and the Folding@home Consortium. Most recently, he directed the $68M NIH-funded AI-driven Structure-enabled Antiviral Platform (ASAP), building pipelines of globally equitable and affordable oral antivirals for pandemic preparedness.
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