AI-driven drug discovery using protein-design models.
Founders
Marc Tessier-Lavigne(Canada · ♂)— A renowned neuroscientist and former Stanford president and Genentech research chief, he was tapped to lead Xaira and apply AI to drug discovery at scale.
David Baker(United States · ♂)— A pioneer of computational protein design whose lab created the AI tools to design proteins from scratch, he co-founded Xaira to turn that science into medicines.
Vik Bajaj(United States · ♂)— A scientist and investor who co-founded Verily and Foresite Labs, he helped incubate Xaira to fuse machine learning with biology.
Hetu Kamisetty(India · ♂)— A machine learning scientist from Meta and the Institute for Protein Design, he co-founded Xaira to build AI models for protein and drug design.