About Character
Character’s approach integrates genomics, longitudinal clinical and imaging data, machine learning to identify the genetic drivers of disease progression and develop innovative therapies.
Since inception, we have built Character Bio to be a patient-driven therapeutics company.
We partner with patients, providers, and scientists to create deeply-phenotyped patient cohorts to enable clinical genomic research.
We partner with patients, providers, and scientists to create deeply-phenotyped patient cohorts to enable clinical genomic research.
Our commitment to patients comes through in the high standards we set to ensure privacy, data security, ethics, scientific rigor and meaningful impact to patient health.
Our Values
We’re for people
Safety and privacy always
Ethical transparency in our science
Patient diversity matters
Focus on polygenic diseases
Make the greatest health impact
OUR TEAM
We are experts from the worlds of drug discovery and development, data science, and clinical research.
Aakriti Singh, MS
Research Associate
Adria Frazier
Senior Research Associate
Andrea Neeranjan
Associate Director, Clinical Research
Anita Wong
Clinical Research Associate
Brendan Curran
Software Engineer
Cheng Zhang
CEO, Co-Founder
Danielle Clark, PhD
Scientist
David Buchholz, PhD
Senior Scientist
Dinah Chen, MD
Medical Director and Clinical Innovation Lead
Emily Miller
Head of People
Erik Karrer, PhD
SVP, Drug Discovery
Erin Burke, PhD
Strategic Partnering Lead
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Florence Lantan
Operation Analyst
Geraldine Taveras
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
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Jasmin Bharadiya, PhD
Senior Data Engineer
Joe Davis, PhD
Director Data Science
Jonathan Gumucio, PhD
Associate Director, Drug Discovery
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Julia Myers
Senior Research Associate
Kaila Smilen, MBA
Senior Director, BD & Corporate Strategy
Laura Carter, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Laura Macri
Senior Clinical Research Manager
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Laura Szewczyk
Senior Director, Clinical Operations
Maria Avrutsky, PhD
Senior Scientist
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Nathaniel Mooi, MS
Senior Research Associate
Ryan Campbell
Senior Research Associate
Sumra Farooq
Clinical Data Manager
Tejasveeta Nadkarni, MS
Associate Scientist
Wedward Wei, MS
Machine Learning Engineer
Yunju Yang, PhD
Human Genetics Lead
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Zachary Katz
Director, Strategic Initiatives & Alliance Management
Marcel van der Brug, PhD
Scientific Advisor, Co-Founder
Nick Johnson
Technology Advisor, Co-Founder
We’re hiring!
Come work with us and make a transformative impact on patient lives.
Our BOARD
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Reut Shema, PhD
aMoon
Jamie Kasuboski, PhD
Luma Group
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Nick Olsen
Innovation Endeavors
Mayssa Attar, PhD
Bausch + Lomb
Vivek Garipalli
Clover Health
Peter DiLaura
Independent
Cheng Zhang
Character
Our Investors
