Founder & CEO; builder, health tech, entrepreneur; making a positive change to the world my children and I live in, blessed to have received many awards and honors and had many successes and failures.
Imagine, for a minute, the world’s most diverse genomic, proteomic, and omics datasets combined with deep clinical history. A dataset so rich in novel genetic variants. Now layer improved bioinformatics and AI/ML, and you get medical and scientific discoveries and significantly reduced worldwide healthcare disparities. You also get an Africa that becomes a significant player in life science R&D and drug discovery and development. At Syndicate Bio, we are taking our operational, ethical, and scientific experience previously gained as a pioneer in building one of the world's largest diverse biobanks to build what will arguably be one of the world’s most important healthcare/ life science resources. We are doing this collaboratively and inclusively, working with local governments and respecting their sovereignty over samples and data, ensuring that much of the value chain around intellectual property generation is harbored within their countries, and working with academia, local scientists, and global industry and donors. Why this approach? Because building one of the most important datasets of our lifetime requires all of us as its discoveries affect us all. Our name, “Syndicate Bio,” reflects that ethos - a shared commitment towards building a resource that improves healthcare for all of us and is done by all of us. But this time, African scientists and economies also benefit from the discoveries and intellectual property generated on the African continent. Our company and mission have received so much support for which we are grateful, and we cannot list all the support in one post. However, we want to thank our pre-seed investors, including Techstars, StoryHouse Ventures, Resilience17, Dx Angels (a digital health syndicate of Doximity alumni and other health tech leaders), and others. I always say that an organization is made up of the people in it. So I want to thank the people who are behind some of the organizations or who invested directly as well, such as Olugbenga Agboola (CEO of Flutterwave), Miles T. Bird and Josh Tatum (Founders of StoryHouse Ventures), Gbenga Oyebode ( Founder of the leading integrated Nigeria law firm ALN Nigeria | Aluko & Oyebode), Jessica Hope (CEO of Wimbart), ?Mujtaba B. and Ahmed Belal (founders of Dx Angels), and Trey Bowles (MD Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator). We have a great team of resilient and determined professionals who have and continue to support our mission made up of people like Estelle Dogbo, Wissam Hamou Ph.D, TS (ABB), Jumi Popoola, PhD, Chinyere Jacinta, Ofonime Ebong, marcus inyama Asuquo, Yusuf Ibrahim, QBRS, Aminu Yakubu, Wubrest Bekele, MD and more, and great advisors such as Peter Wilkinson (Chief Accounting Officer of Labcorp), Alon Keinan (leading computational biologist and professor at Cornell), and Sufyan Subzwari (CIO of DNAMIC | Databricks Data Solutions). Our journey is just beginning, and we have so much planned!