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Healthcare Founder Directory

Founders revolutionizing healthcare, biotech, and life sciences.

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Alexey Strygin
@strygah

Founder of a stealth startup focused on AI-powered longevity drug discovery. Previously worked at Insilico Medicine and Gero, both companies in the AI-driven drug discovery and aging research space.

Founder
4 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
4 VCs
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Erin Smith
@erinlens

Stanford CS and Neuroscience student working as Senior Atlantic Fellow at Global Brain Health Institute. Thiel Fellow and Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient focused on breakthrough health technologies.

Research
3 VCs
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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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Samir Unni
@samirunni

Ex-Palantir engineer who moved into healthcare business development, now co-founder and CEO of Link Mobile.

TechnicalBizDev
3 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
3 VCs
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John Antonelli
@johnreal

Duke alum and co-founder of Real. Previously founded Endpoints News (243k subscribers) and invented FierceBiotech during a 47-year journalism career covering biotech and healthcare.

Content
3 VCs

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

Founder
3 VCs
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Emily Colman
@emilyrcolman

Founder launching an AI-native pharmacy focused on personalized medicine. Part of Y Combinator's S26 batch.

Funded
3 VCs
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Ofir Ehrlich
@ofirehrlich

CEO and Co-Founder at Eon.

Founder
3 VCs
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