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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
Yochi Slonim
M.Sc., Co-founder & CEO, Board member
- Software
- AI
- Operations
Iris Alroy
PhD., Co-founder & CSO
- Visual biology
- Operations
- Imaging
Avi Eliassaf
Chief Operating Officer
- Operations
Yossi Oulu
M.Sc., Vice President, Software Development
- Software
- AI
Generoso Ianniciello
M.Sc., Chief Business Officer
- Visual biology
- Operations
Yuval Tsadik
MBA, Vice President of Finance
- Operations
Rick Lufkin
Vice President, Administration
- Operations
Yoni Sheinberger
PhD., Vice President of Biology
- Visual biology
- Imaging
Inbal Shapira Lots
PhD., Vice President of AI & Data Science
- Software
- AI
- Imaging
Boaz Inbal
PhD., Vice President of Chemistry
- AI
- Chemistry
Moty Klepfish
PhD., Vice President of Scientific Context
- Visual biology
- Imaging
Board of directors
Barak Ben-Eliezer
Board member
- Software
Pascal Brandys
Board member
- Operations
Fred Voccola
Board member
- Software
- Operations
Gilead Sher
Board member
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
Advisory board
Barry Cooperman
Advisory board member
Michel Goldberg
Advisory board member
Prof. Ada Yonath
Advisory board, in memoriam

















