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The Cellular Biology Runtime for AI Agents

AI is transforming drug design. But designing a molecule is only half the challenge. The other half is understanding what it actually does in biology.

Biology is a dynamic network of thousands of parallel molecular activities. To design better drugs, AI must understand the state of that network and how it responds to intervention.

Molecular assays, morphology profiling and computational models provide different views of biology. But a drug affects an interconnected network, where changes in one activity can influence many others. Understanding these effects requires seeing how they happen together. BioGPU connects selected molecular-activity measurements in a cellular network with evidence that AI agents reason on.

Anima Biotech developed BioGPU to make that possible.

BioGPU is the Cellular Biology Runtime for AI Agents. On BioGPU, AI agents design and run experiments, see inside cellular networks, and discover how they respond to drugs.

BioGPU's Visual Biology technology generates the experimental images. Its Foundation Model, trained on more than 2 billion images of cellular activities, recognizes what is happening and brings that evidence directly into AI.

Anima brings experience across 25 drug-discovery programs, including collaborations with AbbVie, Takeda, and Lilly.

With BioGPU, AI can do more than design molecules. It can see what they do across cellular networks, learn from the results, and design better drugs.

Team

The Anima Biotech team

BioGPU brings its scientific and technical disciplines together in one company. These include cell biology, imaging, chemistry, omics, systems biology, AI, software and drug discovery.

  • Cell biology and Visual BiologyDisease-relevant cellular systems and the visualizers that make molecular activities visible
  • ImagingHigh-content imaging at single-cell resolution, at scale
  • ChemistryMedicinal and computational chemistry, from compound design to optimized molecules
  • Omics and bioinformaticsMolecular data that places each experiment in its biological context
  • Systems and computational biologyReading cellular networks as systems, not single pathways
  • AI and data scienceThe Visual Biology Foundation Model, the BioGPU Agent and Cellular Biology Tokens
  • Software and engineeringThe runtime, the data platform and the automation behind it
  • Drug discoveryTarget, mechanism and therapeutic-area experience across 25 programs

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Leadership

Board of directors

Team

  • Ivan Khodyrev

    PhD., Director, Software Development

    • Software
    • AI
  • Shaul Barth

    PhD., Associate Director, Visual Biology Development & Automation

    • Visual biology
    • Imaging
  • Dana Radha

    MBA, Head of HR

    • Operations
  • Ephrem Kassa

    PhD., Principal Scientist, Visual Biology Development Team Lead

    • Visual biology
  • Keren Kipnis

    PhD., Principal Scientist, Visual Biology Automation Team Lead

    • Visual biology
  • Jasmine Khier

    PhD., Scientific Product Lead, Senior Scientist

    • Software
  • Irit Reichenstein

    PhD., Principal Scientist, Drug Discovery Programs Team Lead

    • Visual biology
  • Ben Bar-Sadeh

    PhD., Senior Research Scientist

    • Visual biology
  • Shaked Bergman

    PhD., Lead Computational Biologist

    • Computational Biology
  • Adi Amar-Schwartz

    PhD., Senior Research Scientist

    • Visual biology
  • Nitsan Elmalam

    M.Sc., AI Researcher

    • AI
    • Imaging
  • Andrew Brown

    PhD., Associate Principal Scientist, Medicinal Chemist

    • Chemistry
  • Eitan Margulis

    PhD., Senior Computational Chemist

    • AI
    • Chemistry
  • Tamar Frankovits

    PhD., Research Scientist

    • Visual biology
  • Miki Shvo

    CISO & AWS Admin

    • Software
    • Operations
  • Evelyn Popok

    B.Sc., Data and Backend Architect, BioGPU

    • Software
  • Artem Tverskoi

    PhD., Senior Research Scientist

    • Visual biology
  • Yael Elkin

    M.Sc., AI Data Scientist

    • AI
    • Imaging
  • Luba Ischakov Simhaev

    PhD., Senior Computational Chemist

    • Chemistry
  • Amihai Karniel

    PhD., Scientific Product Expert, Senior Scientist

    • Software
  • Odelia Goldberg-Nakar

    PhD., Senior Research Data Analyst

    • Computational Biology
  • Nir Katz

    Software QA Manager

    • Software
  • Sari Trangle

    PhD., Senior Research Scientist

    • Visual biology
  • Claudia Roussay Maggi

    M.Sc., Research Associate

    • Visual biology
  • Ana Miriam Salama

    M.Sc., Senior Research Associate

    • Visual biology
  • Shuyu Chu

    PhD., Associate Principal Scientist, Medicinal Chemist

    • Chemistry
  • Racheli Rimmer

    M.Sc., Senior Research Associate

    • Visual biology
  • Almog Angel

    PhD., System Biologist

    • Computational Biology
  • Yifat Weiss

    M.Sc., Senior Research Associate

    • Visual biology
  • Mikhail Usik

    M.Sc., Senior DevOps Engineer

    • Software
  • Naama Slonim

    M.Sc., Senior Research Associate

    • Visual biology
  • Tamir Oulu

    UI/UX Developer

    • Software
  • Linoy Vaturi

    B.Sc., Senior Research Associate

    • Visual biology
  • Luis Alejandro de Haro

    PhD., Bioinformatician

    • Computational Biology
  • Dana Kadosh-Kariti

    M.Sc., Senior Research Associate

    • Visual biology
  • Sary Khalaila

    B.Sc., Backend Developer

    • Software
  • Linda Murikkattu

    M.Sc., Business Development Executive

    • Operations
  • Aleksei Mushegov

    Senior Frontend Developer

    • Software
  • Tiferet Gan

    B.Sc., QA Engineer

    • Software
  • Ziv Landau

    M.Sc., Laboratory Supervisor

    • Visual biology
  • Alisa Lysak

    B.Sc., Research Associate

    • Visual biology
  • Alon Parsai

    M.Sc., Senior Research Associate

    • Visual biology
  • Ronit Cohen

    Financial Operations Manager

    • Operations
  • Anton Akinin

    B.Sc., Backend Developer

    • Software
  • Bruna Mathias Sinowetz

    Office Manager

    • Operations

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