Xaira Therapeutics

When science meets AI, cool things happen … like earning a spot on?Fortune’s 50 AI Innovators list! Thanks to?John Kell?for sitting down with our CEO,?Marc Tessier-Lavigne, to learn more about how we're?applying AI to drug discovery, production, and clinical trials. Marc says “We believe that AI will enable us to transform how we do all three steps and be much more successful.”

More Xair Bears! What a great Halloween at Xaira HQ. Oh hey Flavio Schwarz, Aisha Chow, Tina Thai, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Thomas Bartholow, Norman Goodacre, Jared Mohr, Ankita W., James Maksymetz , Andy Deng, Hetu K, Danielle Brady, Jason Liang, Lauren Lau, Arvind Rajpal, Christine Beahn, and Debbie Law! Nice work.

Happy Halloween from our Xair Bears to yours! Hetu K, Debbie Law, Arvind Rajpal, Danielle Brady, Marc Tessier-Lavigne (we'll let you decide which one is Grumpy Bear)

Xaira in the Wild, Part 3 (and we do mean wild!), in which we highlight the employees who make us a #LinkedInTopStartup, as they do their thing outside of work. Join us for this magnificent view of our head of business operations, Pam Cheng, as she swims with a whale shark. Did you know that the whale shark is the largest living non-cetacean animal? And contrary to what its name implies, it is not a mammal but a fish. Here comes the part where we insert pithy little analogies (H/T Christopher Yohn, Ph.D.) about your career, and how you need to check out our open jobs so you can avoid swimming with sharks, and become a big fish in the AI drug discovery sea, etc. But we feel that cheapens the beauty of this video, so we'll stop here. Come swim with us: https://lnkd.in/gWRTQzED

Team Xaira in the Wild ... part 2 in a series. What makes Xaira a #LinkedInTopStartup? Our multi-faceted team of many talents, of course. Today we shine a spotlight on our scientist Elizabeth (Ryan) Rumsey, while she engages in her favorite after work activity: refurbishing furniture and re-imagining a brand new future for it. Does your career need a little refurbishing and restoring? Has the shine dulled? Are you drawn to our mission of reimagining the future of drug discovery through AI and sanding away all the rough edges? We'll stop with our weak analogies (or is it metaphors? We get those confused - pls advise us in the comments) and let you read our job description of the week. We're hiring for a head of computational biology and bioinformatics. Come bring your whole self to Xaira: https://lnkd.in/gtmjTZw4

Closing out a busy week with some news about our team! We're so excited to be working with Debbie Law and Julia Tran.

Team Xaira in the wild! What makes Xaira a LinkedIn Top Startup? It's our people, of course. We hire people who are excited by and engaged in this crazy world around us. Today Sydney Gordon, a principal scientist in our drug development and discovery team, shows us what she gets up to when she's not getting her science on. What moves you? Check out our open roles here and bring your whole self to our team: https://lnkd.in/gWRTQzED

Congratulations from all of us at Xaira Therapeutics to our co-founder, David Baker, and to John Jumper and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, for sharing this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry! Their stunning breakthroughs, using AI to enable prediction of protein structure and extending this to the design of novel proteins, have opened up the empirical world of drug discovery to the power of AI. Xaira was founded to leverage AI advances to transform how we discover and develop drugs and to generate novel therapies for poorly treated diseases. Congratulations to these three inspiring scientists for providing the foundation for our work!

Still having a warm glow from last week's Endpoints 11 awards ceremony in Boston! Here is Xaira Therapeutics CEO Marc Tessier-Lavigne with Vik Bajaj, CEO of Foresite Labs, at the gala dinner. Xaira is a joint incubation of ARCH Venture Partners and Foresite Labs. A lot of people have been hard at work building our foundation - shout out to our employees ?? for helping us get this recognition! Have a safe and happy weekend from Xaira HQ.

We are so pleased to announce that Debbie Law has joined Xaira as our chief scientific officer! This is a big moment for our company. Debbie's background is uniquely suited for this challenge, and to say we are thrilled that she chose to join us is quite an understatement!? Debbie most recently served as senior vice president and head of Bristol Myers Squibb’s Non-clinical Research and Discovery Biotherapeutics organizations. Prior to BMS, she spent time at life science companies including Janssen and Merck, and served as CSO at Jounce Therapeutics and Ablynx NV. Debbie completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow and earned her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in immunology from the University of Oxford. She will be reporting to our CEO, Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Debbie lives in Hillsborough, and in her free time enjoys walking and watching zombie movies ??♂? ??♀? ?