Improving the discovery of novel drugs with artificial intelligence

Andrew A. Radin is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aria Pharmaceuticals. Andrew created the company’s first drug development algorithms as part of his studies in biomedical informatics at Stanford University in 2014. Since co-founding Aria, Andrew was named an Emerging Pharma Leader by Pharma Executive magazine, was invited to give a TEDMED talk, and was named a Top 100 AI Leader by Deep Knowledge Analytics. In addition to his duties as CEO at Aria, Andrew serves as an advisor to Stanford University’s SPARK drug development and Stanford University’s StartX startup accelerator programs. Prior to co-founding Aria, Andrew served as Chief Technology Officer at several successful internet startups. His prior projects have reached tens of millions of people in telephony systems, advertising networks, video games, and geographical mapping systems. Andrew studied Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University’s SCPD graduate program and holds a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Lucas is trained in computational biophysics and protein engineering. Prior to Cyrus he was a Translational Investigator & Senior Fellow at the Baker lab at UW, developing small-molecule binding proteins and protein design algorithms. Lucas is the founder of PedalAnywhere, an online-only bicycle rental company. Lucas’ scientific work includes a patented computationally designed enzyme, an RNA-dynamics-modeling software toolkit (built during his Ph.D. with Eugene Shakhnovich and Xiaowei Zhuang at Harvard), and algorithm optimization for automation of computational protein design. Harvard A.B., Biochemical Sciences (summa cum laude and Goldwater Scholar) and Ph.D., Biophysics; Hertz Fellow.

Michael Wilson has over a decade of experience in bioinformatics and metabolomics research with a background in Biological and Computer Sciences. He has co-authored 19 scientific publications and one textbook, as well as participated in two international data exchange committees for bioinformatics data formats. As the CEO at DrugBank, Michael leads the strategic direction, operations, management, and business development teams to drive the company's growth. Today, DrugBank has millions of users and customers located in more than 20 countries.

Craig Knox has spent more than 15 years in computing science, genetics, and metabolomics and bioinformatics research. For a decade, Craig served as a bioinformatician and team lead at the University of Alberta’s Genome Canada Helpdesk. He then went on to work as a software engineer in Santa Monica before co-founding a global bioinformatics consulting company. Today, as co-founder and CTO of DrugBank, Craig leads an impressive team of software developers and curators, focusing on technology strategy and alignment, AI applications, and data integration and quality.