Team
OpenPep brings together expertise in experimental biology, chemistry, and machine learning to advance peptide discovery. The team is advised by academic and industry representatives.
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Joseph Brown
Principal Investigator, Brown Lab · University of Toronto
Joseph is an Assistant Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty Advisor to the Medicinal Chemistry Self-Driving Lab at the University of Toronto. His lab is building a self-driving laboratory for peptide drug discovery, combining machine learning with affinity-selection mass spectrometry.
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Christopher Ing
Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder · ProteinQure, Toronto
Christopher is Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder of ProteinQure, a clinical-stage biotech designing peptide therapeutics with AI. He holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto and has used physical simulations to study chemical and biological systems from one to one million atoms.
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Philip Kim
Principal Investigator, Kim Lab · University of Toronto
Philip is a Professor at the University of Toronto, based at the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research. His lab develops machine learning methods for structural biology and combines them with high-throughput screening to design protein and peptide therapeutics.
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Keith Pardee
Principal Investigator, Pardee Lab · University of Toronto
Keith is an Associate Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, and Canada Research Chair in Synthetic Biology and Human Health. His lab develops cell-free synthetic biology tools, from low-cost diagnostics to field-based biomanufacturing.
Advisory Team
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Aled Edwards
Chief Executive Officer, Professor · Structural Genomics Consortium and University of Toronto
Aled is the founder and Chief Executive of the Structural Genomics Consortium and Professor of Medical Genetics and Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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To Be Announced
Academic/industry representative
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To Be Announced
Academic/industry representative