we are
exonauts.

Exai employees giggling at a meeting

Our Team

people are our greatest asset

We’re a next-generation liquid biopsy company.

Our mission is to enable a world where cancer can be detected early, diagnosed accurately, managed precisely, and ultimately cured.

Leadership

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Babak Alipanahi
Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
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Patrick Arensdorf
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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Seema Singh Bhan
Senior Advisor, Public Policy and External Affairs
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Kimberly Chau
VP of Clinical Operations
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Cheryl Chin
VP of Marketing
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Lisa Fish
Senior Director of Research
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Anna Hartwig
VP of Product and Technology Development
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Fereydoun Hormozdiari
Director of Computational Biology & Algorithms
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Lisa Grismer
Head of Project & Portfolio Management
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Nelson Lee
Chief Administrative Officer
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Helen Li
Senior Director of Software & Data Engineering
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Michael Multhaup
Senior Staff Scientist in Computational Biology
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Raaj Trivedi
VP of Corporate Development
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Carolyn Wang
Head of People and Culture
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Emi Zychlinsky
Executive Vice President of Operations

Advisors

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Hani Goodarzi
Founder & Scientific Advisor
UCSF
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Robert Warren
Clinical Advisor
UCSF
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Laura van ‘t Veer
Scientific Advisor
UCSF
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Steve Kafka
Business Advisor
Section 32

Board

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Alex Parker
Board Director
Casdin Capital
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Mike Pellini
Board Director
Section 32
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Dusan Perovic
Board Observer
Two Sigma Ventures
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Emir Sandhu
Board Observer
Blue Venture Fund

Investors

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  • Casdin Capital's logo
  • Two Sigma Ventures' logo
  • Blue Venture Fund's logo
  • Moore Strategic Ventures' logo

Our History

to build a new venture from the ground up...

it really takes a village.

Dr. Hani Goodarzi, Founder & Scientific Advisor
Two Exai scientists in the lab
Hani in his lab at UCSF
Credit: Mario Sanchez, UCSF

Our Story

in the beginning

The oncRNA technology began in the laboratories of the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Hani Goodarzi and Dr. Lisa Fish discovered the potential of identifying cancer-specific oncRNAs. By looking where others in the field had not, they discovered new biomarkers that will pave the way to changing the future of diagnostics.

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Right Now

RNA offers hope

Now, we are the veterans in the field.‍

Exai brings together intrepid leaders in the fields of RNA biology, liquid biopsy, and artificial intelligence who are joining forces to fulfill our vision.

Academics & Industry Experience

  • UCSF, Stanford University, MIT, Karolinska Institute, University of Waterloo, Rockefeller University, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University
  • Bluestar Genomics, Illumina, Guardant Health, Myriad Genetics, Google, 23andMe, Deep Genomics
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Looking Ahead

changing the future of cancer

The vision and the means to act on it.

We plan to change the future of early cancer detection by providing clinical insights into cancer biology. And that future looks a lot brighter.

It requires a lot of hard work and collaboration. Does that excite you?

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