Company
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.
Today's technologies measure individual parts of biology. AI models predict how they might behave. 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.
Anima Biotech developed BioGPU to make that possible.
BioGPU is the Cellular Biology Runtime for AI Agents. It enables AI agents to 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, safer drugs.
Team
The Anima Biotech team
Integrated capabilities across every discipline BioGPU needs: cell biology, imaging, chemistry, omics, systems biology, AI, software and drug discovery, in one company.
- 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 tool compounds 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 Visual 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
- A.I.
- Operations
Iris Alroy
PhD., Co-founder & CSO
- Visual biology
- Operations
- Imaging
Avi Eliassaf
Chief Operating Officer
- Software
- Operations
Yossi Oulu
M.Sc., Vice President, Software Development
- Software
- A.I.
Generoso Ianniciello
M.Sc., Chief Business Officer
- Visual biology
- Operations
Yuval Tsadik
MBA, Vice President of Finance
- Software
- Operations
Rick Lufkin
Vice President, Administration
- Operations
Yoni Sheinberger
PhD., Vice President of Discovery
- Visual biology
- Imaging
Inbal Shapira Lots
PhD., Vice President of AI & Data Science
- Software
- A.I.
- Imaging
Boaz Inbal
PhD., Vice President of Chemistry
- A.I.
- Chemistry
Moty Klepfish
PhD., Vice President of Therapeutic Areas
- Visual biology
- Imaging
Board of directors
Barak Ben-Eliezer
Board member
- Software
- A.I.
Pascal Brandys
Board member
- Visual biology
- Software
- Operations
Fred Voccola
Board member
- Software
- Operations
Gilead Sher
Board member
- Operations
Team

Ivan Khodyrev
PhD., Director, Software Development
- Software
- A.I.

Shaul Barth
PhD., Principal Scientist, Assay development & screen Team Lead
- Visual biology
- Imaging

Alik Demishtein
PhD., Principal Scientist, Drug Discovery Team Lead
- Visual biology

Dana Radha
MBA, Head of HR
- Operations

Amihai Karniel
PhD., Principal Scientist, R&D Quality and Operations Lead
- Visual biology

Ephrem Kassa
PhD., Principal Scientist, MOA & Target ID Team Lead
- Visual biology

Keren Kipnis
PhD., Senior Research Scientist, Screen-Unit Manager
- Visual biology

Jasmine Khier
PhD., Scientific Product Lead, Senior Scientist
- Visual biology

Ofer Bihari
PhD., Senior Research Scientist
- Visual biology

Sari Trangle
PhD., Senior Research Scientist
- Visual biology

Ben Bar-Sadeh
PhD., Senior Research Scientist
- Visual biology

Irit Reichenstein
PhD., Senior Research Scientist
- Visual biology

Artem Tverskoi
PhD., Senior Research Scientist
- Visual biology

Adi Amar-Schwartz
PhD., Research Scientist
- Visual biology

Miki Shvo
CISO & AWS Admin
- Software
- Operations

Tamar Frankovits
PhD., Research Scientist
- Visual biology

Luba Ischakov Simhaev
PhD., Senior Computational Chemist
- Chemistry

Andrew Brown
PhD., Associate Principal Scientist, Medicinal Chemist
- Chemistry

Eitan Margulis
PhD., Senior Computational Chemist
- A.I.
- Chemistry

Racheli Rimmer
M.Sc., Senior Research Associate
- Visual biology

Alon Parsai
M.Sc., Senior Research Associate
- Visual biology

Linoy Vaturi
B.Sc., Senior Research Associate
- Visual biology

Shuyu Chu
PhD., Associate Principal Scientist, Medicinal Chemist
- Chemistry

Evelyn Popok
B.Sc., Data and Backend Architect, BioGPU
- Software

Shaked Bergman
PhD., Lead Computational Biologist
- Computational Biology

Naama Slonim
M.Sc., Senior Research Associate
- Visual biology

Ziv Landau
M.Sc., Laboratory Supervisor
- Visual biology

Ana Miriam Salama
M.Sc., Senior Research Associate
- Visual biology

Dana Kadosh-Kariti
M.Sc., Senior Research Associate
- Visual biology

Nir Katz
Software QA Manager
- Software

Yifat Weiss
M.Sc., Senior Research Associate
- Visual biology

Claudia Roussay Maggi
M.Sc., Research Associate
- Visual biology

Mikhail Usik
M.Sc., Senior DevOps Engineer
- Software

Alisa Lysak
B.Sc., Research Associate
- Visual biology

Nitsan Elmalam
M.Sc., AI Researcher
- A.I.
- Imaging

Linda Murikkattu
M.Sc., Business Development Executive
- Operations

Almog Angel
PhD., System Biologist
- Computational Biology

Aleksei Mushegov
Senior Frontend Developer
- Software

Odelia Goldberg-Nakar
PhD., Senior Research Data Analyst
- Computational Biology

Sary Khalaila
B.Sc., Backend Developer
- Software

Yael Elkin
M.Sc., AI Data Scientist
- A.I.
- Imaging

Anton Akinin
B.Sc., Backend Developer
- Software

Luis Alejandro de Haro
PhD., Bioinformatician
- Computational Biology

Tiferet Gan
B.Sc., QA Engineer
- Software

Tamir Oulu
UI/UX Developer
- Software

Ronit Cohen
Financial Operations Manager
- Operations

Bruna Mathias Sinowetz
Office Manager
- Operations
Advisory board
Barry Cooperman
Advisory board member
- Visual biology
Michel Goldberg
Advisory board member
- Visual biology
Prof. Ada Yonath (In Memoriam)
Advisory board member
- Visual biology

















