Foundation model builders and drug discovery veterans

Our team combines pioneers in AI-driven drug discovery with proven leaders in therapeutic development and company building. From developing widely used models such as Chemprop, RFDiffusion 3, and ADMET-AI to advancing medicines from discovery to approval, our experience spans the full journey from scientific innovation to patient impact.

Sylvain Gariel
Sylvain Gariel
CEO, Cofounder
Dr Alex Powers
Dr Alex Powers
CTO, Cofounder
Dr Ron Dror
Dr Ron Dror
Advisor, Cofounder
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Dr Esther Martinborough
Dr Esther Martinborough
Chief Scientific Officer
Dr Marion Lanier
Dr Marion Lanier
VP Chemistry
Dr Kyle Swanson
Dr Kyle Swanson
Founding Head of AI
Dr Raktim Mitra
Dr Raktim Mitra
AI Structural Biology Lead
Dr Dabrick Brill
Dr Dabrick Brill
Cloud Infra Lead
Dr Swetha Srinivasan
Dr Swetha Srinivasan
Director of Biology
Landmark papers from the team

Publications

  1. 01 A cryptic pocket in CB1 drives peripheral and functional selectivity Rangari VA, O’Brien ES, Powers AS, et al., Kobilka BK, Dror RO, Gereau RW, Majumdar S Nature · 2025
  2. 02 Structural basis of efficacy-driven ligand selectivity at GPCRs Powers AS, Pham V, Burger WAC, et al., Christopoulos A, Valant C, Dror RO Nature Chemical Biology · 2023
  3. 03 Xanomeline displays concomitant orthosteric and allosteric binding modes at the M4 mAChR Burger WAC, Pham V, Vuckovic Z, Powers AS, et al., Valant C, Thal DM Nature Communications · 2023
  4. 04 Geometric deep learning for structure-based ligand design Powers AS, Yu HH, Suriana P, Koodli RV, Lu T, Paggi JM, Dror RO ACS Central Science · 2023
  5. 05 Structural basis for modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor by allosteric drugs Dror RO, Green HF, Valant C, et al., Christopoulos A, Shaw DE Nature · 2013
  6. 06 Pathway and mechanism of drug binding to G-protein-coupled receptors Dror RO, Pan AC, Arlow DH, et al., Shaw DE PNAS · 2011
  7. 07 Molecular dynamics simulation for all Hollingsworth SA, Dror RO Neuron · 2018
  8. 08 De novo design of all-atom biomolecular interactions with RFdiffusion3 Butcher J, Krishna R, Mitra R, et al., Baker D bioRxiv · 2025
  9. 09 Geometric deep learning of protein–DNA binding specificity (DeepPBS) Mitra R, Li J, Sagendorf JM, et al., Rohs R Nature Methods · 2024
  10. 10 A deep learning approach to antibiotic discovery Stokes JM, Yang K, Swanson K, et al., Barzilay R, Collins JJ Cell · 2020
  11. 11 Analyzing learned molecular representations for property prediction (Chemprop) Yang K, Swanson K, Jin W, et al. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 2019
  12. 12 Generative AI for designing and validating easily synthesizable and structurally novel antibiotics (SyntheMol) Swanson K, Liu G, Catacutan DB, Arnold A, Zou J, Stokes JM Nature Machine Intelligence · 2024
  13. 13 ADMET-AI: a machine learning ADMET platform for evaluation of large-scale chemical libraries Swanson K, Walther P, Leitz J, Mukherjee S, Wu JC, Shivnaraine RV, Zou J Bioinformatics · 2024