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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.

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

Board of directors

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

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