About
The team behind Sapho Bio
Sapho Bio exists to accelerate pharmaceutical release testing — enabling precision medicines and critical products to move from production to patients faster, more reliably, and with less operational friction.
Team members
Industry experts
Investors
Trusted by pharmacies and partners:
Mission
team
Built by scientists.
Run for perfection.
Cameron Bravo
Operations Research Scientist
Experimental high-energy particle physicist with 15 years of experience. Helped build equipment used at CERN. Expertise in large datasets, scientific operations, and instrumentation.
Santhosh Karanth
Research Scientist
Over a decade in assay development and screening. Specializes in metabolism and genetics. Experience spanning genome editing, biologics, small molecules, and diagnostics.
Ali Palla
Research Scientist
PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UCSF. A decade of protein biochemistry and RNA biology experience studying chromatin modification. Enjoys reading, gaming, and exploring cities.
Ethan Stirrup
Research Scientist
Pharmacology background. Finds practical problem solutions. Enjoys reading, running, and cycling.
Octavio Arias
Research Scientist
B.S. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley. Optimized neurotransmitter brain-imaging probes for oxytocin modeling. Enjoys business and financial literature, chess, and poker.
Jonathan Ayache
Research Scientist
B.S. in Bioengineering from Santa Clara University. Two years of mitochondrial research at Lifespan Institute developing novel delivery methods. Enjoys, woodworking, and computer tinkering.
Sean Fisher
Head of Sales
Over a decade of experience in CRM architecture, revenue operations and sales infrastructure across SaaS, biotech and enterprise environments. Enjoys gaming, exploring new tech, and fixing retro electronics.
Leo Rodriguez
Recruiter
Biology degrees in ecology and physiology. Previously recruited at Lifespan Research Institute. Enjoys mountain biking, working out, and reading.
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Advisory Board
Guided by industry experts
Scientific Advisor
Expert in drug discovery, assay design, and analytical chemistry. Has contributed to therapeutic and bioanalytic assay inventions.
Scientific Advisor
Expert in Rheumatology, Nutrition, and Clinical Epidemiology. Former Global Head of Musculoskeletal Translational Medicine at Novartis.
Scientific Advisor
Expert in thermodynamics of modified nucleotides. Professor at the University of Maryland.
Investors
