Our newest team member, SVP and Head of Biomedical AI Bo Wang, sat down with Brian K. Buntz of Drug Discovery & Development for a wide ranging conversation about his background, his recent work developing foundation models for healthcare and biology, and his motivations for joining our team. Dr. Wang will lead the our efforts to develop AI-driven models to help elucidate the molecular basis of poorly treated diseases, and to match novel treatments to patients most likely to respond – two major challenges of the drug discovery process. We're thrilled to be working together! Welcome to the team 🚀
Xaira Therapeutics
Biotechnology Research
Brisbane, CA 28,008 followers
an integrated biotechnology company driving advances in AI to transform how we treat disease.
About us
Xaira Therapeutics is an integrated biotechnology company driving advances in artificial intelligence to learn the language of life and transform how we treat disease. The company seeks to rethink the drug discovery and development process from end-to-end by bringing together leading talent across three core areas: machine learning research to better understand biology, expansive data generation to power new models, and robust therapeutic product development to treat disease. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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- Industry
- Biotechnology Research
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Brisbane, CA
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- Privately Held
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- 2023
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Pssst ... our shiny new website is up! Our visual identity is inspired by the use of watercolor as the building blocks to hint at human artistry behind advanced technology. We love the fluid forms that create human figures that represent the journey from molecular breakthroughs to their real-world impact on human health. And we think it looks pretty cool, too! Take a look and let us know what you think 💕
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The highlight of the Endpoints News #JPM25 morning kick-off (besides our fireside chat with Marc Tessier-Lavigne) was this drinkable art. Photo by our chief scientific officer (and caffeine art aficionado) Debbie Law. This cappucin-oh! gave us quite a buzz. Did you miss out? Don't have FOAM-O. (sorry, will stop now)
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Great conversation this morning between our CEO Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Andrew Dunn of Endpoints News to kick off #JPM25!
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Our CEO Marc Tessier-Lavigne joined the Longwood Healthcare Leaders CEO event in San Francisco this past weekend. A busy week ahead!
An honor to be joined by Marc Tessier-Lavigne & Hal Barron for an insightful fireside chat led by Christoph Westphal Longwood Fund Altos Labs Xaira Therapeutics. ##longwoodhealthcareleaders #JPMweek
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Our new year is starting off strong! Xaira Therapeutics CEO Marc Tessier-Lavigne will be kicking off #JPM25 with Andrew Dunn of Endpoints News this Monday 1/13/25. His session starts bright and early at 8:05am pacific, and will be worth an extra shot in your triple macchiato that morning.
Next week at #JPM25: "Leading a Billion-Dollar AI Biotech" with Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Hear how Xaira Therapeutics, 2024’s $1B launch, is set to reshape drug R&D with AI. Don’t miss this in-depth conversation. Join us live or online: https://lnkd.in/ezzWPnFp
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We're excited to welcome Paulo Fontoura to our team! Paulo joins us as chief medical officer. He brings a wealth of experience and deep insight to help advance our mission of leveraging AI to transform drug discovery. We're thrilled he's on board for this journey. More info in today's announcement: https://bit.ly/3BxfbfO
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When science meets AI, cool things happen … like earning a spot on Fortune’s 50 AI Innovators list! Thanks to John Kell for sitting down with our CEO, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, to learn more about how we're applying AI to drug discovery, production, and clinical trials. Marc says “We believe that AI will enable us to transform how we do all three steps and be much more successful.”
The Fortune 50 AI Innovators list is here.🎉 If you thought the pace of innovation or investor appetite for AI companies might cool off this year, you were in for a big surprise. Leading AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic saw their valuations surge, while increasingly powerful large language models and new multi-modal capabilities such as voice pushed the envelope of the technology's mind-blowing potential ever further. That gave us a lot to work with as we surveyed the field for our second annual Fortune 50 AI Innovators list. As with the inaugural 2023 list, we cast a wide net, looking at companies of all sizes, from all over the world. In addition to OpenAI, the Big Tech companies on the list include Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia, business software firm Salesforce, and Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group. Among the startups are voice cloning tech company ElevenLabs, French AI chatbot upstart Mistral AI, China-based AI company ModelBest, and biotechnology company Xaira Therapeutics—all of which are less than three years old. 🔗 See the full list: https://lnkd.in/gx-JDdHV
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More Xair Bears! What a great Halloween at Xaira HQ. Oh hey Flavio Schwarz, Aisha Chow, Tina Thai, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Thomas Bartholow, Norman Goodacre, Jared Mohr, Ankita W., James Maksymetz , Andy Deng, Hetu K, Danielle Brady, Jason Liang, Lauren Lau, Arvind Rajpal, Christine Beahn, and Debbie Law! Nice work.
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