Harnessing microbial-derived small molecules for better medicines

Leveraging advanced technologies in machine learning and synthetic biology to scale intelligent discovery with iterative biomanufacturing

Our Process

Multi-omic Data

Generating patient-derived clinical metadata and biospecimen samples

AI

Predicting viable biomarkers and therapeutic candidates

Synthetic Biology

Production of small molecules via cell-free expression

Functional Screening

High throughput immune-profiling assays

We are using proprietary methods in genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology to discover biomarkers and novel therapeutics for the most challenging immunologic disorders.

Team

Ana Vega Rodríguez, PhD
Research Scientist

Ayin Vala, MS
Co-founder, Chief AI Officer

Claire Toney, BS
Research Assistant

Dora Yu, PhD
Scientist

Jesus Barajas, PhD
Head of Natural Product Discovery

Kareem Barghouti, MBA
Co-founder, CEO

Lanying Ma, PhD
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

Mark Ashwell, PhD
Head of Chemistry

Nehal Hedge
Research Assistant

Nora Fritz, MBA
Strategy and Operations Manager

Peter McCaffrey, MD
Co-founder, CTO

Riccardo Guidi, PhD
Head of Immunology Research

Subramanya Rao, PhD
Scientist

Alex Cogdill, PhD
Cancer Immunology

Stephen Nayfach, PhD
Bioinformatics

Tomer Altman, PhD
Bioinformatics

Advisors

Elaine Stracker, JD, PhD
Former EVP & General Counsel at Pharmacyclics

Grazia Piizzi, PhD
Former Executive Director at Merck

Ken Blount, PhD
CSO Rebiotix

Kovi Bessoff, MD, PhD
Co-founder

Mohamed Donia, PhD
Associate Professor, Princeton University

Mohan Iyer, MBA
General Partner, SOSV/IndieBio

Milad Alucozai, MS, MPH
Serial Entrepreneur, Advisor to AstraZeneca

Nadim Ajami, PhD
Executive Director of Microbiome at MD Anderson

Phil Jones, PhD
VP of Therapeutic Discovery at MD Anderson

Wasim Malik, PhD
Managing Partner at Iaso, Former CDO at Roivant

Supported By

Partners

Contact Us

LOCATION

280 Utah Ave. South San Francisco, CA

PHONE

(650) 479-5539

EMAIL

info@pragmabio.com

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