About Us
Meet the people behind Variant Bio
Our team's expertise spans genetics, molecular biology, therapeutics, anthropology, and ethics. We are united in the belief that human genomics has the power to transform drug development.
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Stephane Castel, PhD
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Genomics Officer
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Laura Yerges-Armstrong, PhD
Sr. VP, Computational Genetics
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Anne-Katrin Emde, PhD
Bioinformatics
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Gabriel Pérez
Information Technology
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Iman Hamid, PhD
Population Genetics
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Mayank Tandon, PhD
Computational Biology
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Mohd Karim, MD, PhD
Health Data
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Olivia Gray, PhD
Health Data
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Rob Flickenger
Research Infrastructure
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Tony Lee
Software Engineering