Xaira’s War on Trial-and-Error Drug Development
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Welcome to another episode of Bloomberg Intelligence Vanguards of Healthcare podcast, where we speak with the leaders at the forefront of change in the healthcare industry. My name is Sam Fazelli, and I'm a healthcare analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, the in-house research arm of Bloomberg. I am thrilled, I think I say this every time, but I'm really thrilled to welcome Mark Tessier-Levine, the CEO of Xera, to the program today. Mark has put me right in how to pronounce that. The spelling is X-A-I-R-A, so Xera. Mark has more than, well, he has decades of experience as a scientist in the world of drug development, running companies, founding companies, and here we find him leading this AI drug development, drug discovery company.
Welcome to the podcast, Mark.
Thank you, Sam. It's great to be here.
Thank you. I've been in the audience where Mark has been presenting in the scientific days, so I'm really pleased with that. Now, before we get going, I always like to get a little history of the folks that we talk to. And no less, I think, Mark, you did say your PhD was actually in my hometown, which is London. And we obviously crossed paths at Guy's Hospital. But do you want to give us a little few minutes of background as to what the process that got you to here is today?
Great. Well, thank you, Sam. Again, it's great to be here. Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm really excited to be leading Zara now, focused on applying AI to transform how we discover and develop drugs. I came to it through several chapters. I started my career as a scientist. As you mentioned, I obtained my PhD in neurophysiology at University College London. then moved to the US for the first time. I'm Canadian, so it was my first move to the US to do postdoctoral work in neuroscience and took my first job at UCSF in San Francisco.
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