Meet the team
Micrographia Bio was founded with the inspiration that all diseases deserve a cure. Being a part of the Company means being passionate about improving drug discovery and making medicines that matter.
Micrographia Bio is a founder-led company and composed of a world-class team including experts in molecular biology, chemistry, physics, optics and machine learning who are dedicated to delivering a new era of drug discovery.
Micrographia Bio was launched in 2020 by Dr. Julia Fan Li and Dr. Chris Thompson who wanted to combine their 35+ years of life sciences expertise in delivering a new era of drug discovery using spatial proteomics.
Julia, our CEO, completed a PhD in Engineering which focused on innovative financing for global health R&D. Stemming from her PhD research at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar, she originated and deployed the world's first $108m Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF) with Lion's Head Global Partners and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Chris, our CTO, completed a PhD at Imperial College London in Protein Signalling. He continued research in the fields of disease biology and cancer, shifting into the domains of Machine Learning for Microscopy and Computer Vision. After research, his last role was as lead engineer for a startup building autonomous robots for tomato harvesting.
Meet our Scientific Advisory Board
Annalisa Jenkins, MBBS, FRCP
Former Head of R&D at Merck Serono, Global Head & SVP of Medical Affairs at Bristol-Myers Squibb, and CEO Dimension Therapeutics. Annalisa chairs and serves on the boards of several life sciences companies in the US and UK.
Alexander Moscho, PhD
Former Chief Strategy Officer with UCB and a member of UCB’s Executive Committee and General Manager of UK & Ireland for Bayer. Alexander is an active angel investor in transformational technologies.
Professor Ed Tate, PhD
Satellite Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute and GSK Chair in Chemical Biology. Ed is a Professor at Imperial College London and serves on the boards of multiple life sciences companies in the UK.
In memory
Tadataka Yamada, M.D.
We were honoured to have Tachi's brilliance, character, intellect, and kindness as Chair of our SAB. His contributions to our mission & technology were invaluable, and we will miss him greatly. We send our deepest condolences to the Yamada family, & will strive to support his legacy through our work at Micrographia Bio.
Contact Us
You can email us directly at
contact@micrographiabio.com
Micrographia Bio (122L)
Translation & Innovation Hub
84 Wood Lane
London, W12 0BZ
