Axial Podcast

Corin Wagen is the Founder and CEO of Rowan. During our conversation, we talk about Corin's journey from the Jacobsen Lab at Harvard to starting Rowan with his brother. Rowan builds design and simulation software for chemistry. The company uses machine learning on quantum mechanics data to predict molecular interactions with high accuracy. Rowan trains its models on internal data and information f...

Jeremy Agresti is the Founder and CTO of Triplebar Bio.

Alex Telford is the Co-Founder and CEO of Convoke.

Scott Stevenson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spellbook.

Milad Dagher is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomic Bio.

Peter Cimermančič is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tesorai.

Costas Maranas is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State.

Simeon Graupe is the Co-Founder and CEO of PatentPlus.

Kevin Leland is the Founder and CEO of Halo Science.

Spencer Hey is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Prism Analytic Technologies.

Ronan McGovern is the Founder of Trelis.

Bogdan Knezevic is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope Bio.

Ryan Du and Vineeth Sendilraj are the founders of Yuno .

Julien Hedou is the Co-Founder and CEO of Surge.

Karolis Martinkus is a senior scientist at Prescient Design, the machine learning arm of Genentech.

Doug Chapnick is the Co-Founder and CEO of BioLoomics . A platform company using directed evolution to discover antibody therapeutics. Combining cell line engineering, machine learning, and imaging. At the core of BioLoomics' technology is directed evolution, a process that mimics natural evolution in the lab. The company uses this to create biologics for a given property like target engagemen...

Evan Zimmerman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Edge , that helps patent attorneys, patent agents, and inventors make the patent process less painful and more effective. He earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the UC Berkeley Law School, where he specialized in IP law. Seeing the potential of AI to transform the patent system, Zimmerman teamed up with Len Boyette, an early employee at Okta. Together...

Daniel Sabanés Bové⁠ is a senior principal data scientist at Roche. In our conversation, we discuss the need for better software in biotech and his career in data science. Daniel studied statistics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, earning his PhD in 2013 from the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His doctoral research focused on Bayesian model selection. After completing hi...

Excited to have a conversation with Martin Permin, Founder and CEO of Invert . The company is on a mission to transform biomanufacturing through advanced software and data analytics. We discuss the founding of Invert, what capabilities they give their customers, and the importance of biomanufacturing to grow biological products like proteins, enzymes, and specialty chemicals. Production from biore...

Errik Anderson is the CEO and Founder of ⁠ ⁠Alloy Therapeutics⁠ ⁠. Founded in 2017, the company democratizes access to drug discovery platforms and services. In our conversation, we discuss Alloy's product offering and story. Alloy has rapidly grown into a thriving ecosystem empowering the global scientific community. The company's innovative business model is centered on 3 pillars: platfo...

Omar Ali is the Senior Director of Research at Lyell Immunopharma. Omar discusses leadership lessons he's picked up across 2 decades working at the intersection of bioengineering and drug development. Starting his first company during grad school at Harvard. Afterwards spending ~7 years at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Setting up his second startup, Immulus, focused...

Chang Liu is a professor at UC Irvine pioneering the application of rapid evolution in synthetic biology and protein engineering. We discuss his career and what it takes to startup & lead a new academic lab. Chang's work spans the fields of genetic engineering, synthetic biology, chemical biology, cell biology, and directed evolution. Where his lab engineers specialized genetic systems tha...

Charles Fisher is the Founder and CEO of Unlearn, that creates digital twins with AI to enable more efficient clinical trials. Founded in 2017, Unlearn started as a generative AI company looking for a problem, ending up on clinical trials & transforming how they are run. A digital Twin is a longitudinal/clinical record using baseline data from a patient before they receive their 1st treatment....

Luke Lavis is a senior group leader and head of molecular tools and imaging at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. Luke Lavis works at the interface of chemistry and biology, developing small-molecule fluorescent dyes to illuminate biological samples. Lavis and his team use modern organic chemistry to design and synthesize bright fluorescent labels for imaging structures inside living cells. By combin...

Kevin Dean is a professor at UT Southwestern pioneering autonomous microscopes and applying them to study rare biological events, mainly metastatic colonization. In our conversation we talk about his research and the current status of microscopy. Kevin was raised in a small town in Northern California earning his BA in Chemistry at Willamette University in Oregon, and was recognized twice as an ES...