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Healthcare Founder Directory

Founders revolutionizing healthcare, biotech, and life sciences.

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David Van Dijk
@david_van_dijk

Yale Professor and founder & CEO of CellType (YC W26), working on AI for drug discovery.

FundedResearch
3 VCs
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Navya B.
@navyadotbio

Bioengineering grad from UMD doing research at NYU Langone, now building biocomputers at Laminae. Writes about biotech's future and focuses on synthetic biology and synthetic morphology.

ResearchStudent
3 VCs
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Soham Sankaran
@sohamsankaran

Founder and CEO of PopVax, an Indian biotech company developing mRNA vaccines and therapeutics using computational protein design. Previously served as an advisor at Pashi.

TechnicalResearchContent
3 VCs
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Alexey Strygin
@strygah

Founder and executive focused on longevity biotech, drug discovery, and longevity economics. Self-described "gompertz outlaw" and vitalist working in the intersection of biotechnology and startups.

Founder
3 VCs

Building the clinical reasoning engine to close the gap between diagnosis and treatment at Latent.

Founder
3 VCs
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Mudith Jayasekara
@mudithj

Medical doctor and Rhodes Scholar pursuing ML PhD at Oxford, co-founder of Parsed working on AI solutions for healthcare. Also co-founded Ethical Education, an educational organization.

TechnicalResearch
3 VCs
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Nick Reber
@nickpreber

CEO & Founder at Garner Health, using data, incentives, and AI to rebuild the healthcare system.

Founder
3 VCs
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Geetha Manjunath
@geethamhp

Computer scientist turned healthcare entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Niramai Health Analytix, an AI-powered healthcare company. TEDx speaker recognized by Forbes Top 20, also serves as Director at IIMB INNOVATIONS.

TechnicalResearch
2 VCs
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Lalarukh Haris Shaikh
@lalarukhharis

Clinical pharmacology scientist with a PhD, currently EVP of Life Sciences & Aerospace at Palantir. Co-founder of CareForHealth and serves on the editorial board of The Physiological Society. Also co-founder & CTO at Mendra.

TechnicalResearch
2 VCs
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Neil Mitra
@neilmitra_

UBC Presidential Scholar who worked on hardware at Midjourney before founding Mitra Biotechnologies in 2020. Masason Foundation member and Z Fellow.

TechnicalResearchStudent
2 VCs
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