Information for Atomic AI

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Basic information

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Country United States
Website https://atomic.ai/
Team page https://atomic.ai/about/
Launch date 2022-01-01
Notes Atomic AI is a biotechnology company focused on RNA-targeted drug discovery using artificial intelligence and structural biology. Its platform combines deep learning models with in-house wet-lab assays to predict RNA three-dimensional structure and design RNA-targeted small molecules and therapeutics. Its foundation model (ATOM-1) enables high-precision RNA structure prediction, expanding access to previously undruggable targets. The company operates at the intersection of machine learning and molecular biology to develop next-generation RNA-centric medicines.
Source [1], [2]
Donations List Website (data still preliminary)

Positions count by year

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Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2021 6 Adrian Sanborn, April Schleck, Brent Townshend, Esta Kor, Raphael Townshend, Stephan Eismann
2022 15 Jake Yukich Adrian Sanborn, Akshay Tambe, April Schleck, Brandon Anderson, Brent Townshend, Esta Kor, Jima G., Matias Kaplan, Meredith Corley, Raphael Townshend, Stephan Eismann Ryan Chow Benjamin Kim, Jory Bell
2023 36 Jake Yukich Adrian Sanborn, April Schleck, Ayah Abdeldayem, Brandon Anderson, Brent Townshend, Connor Stephens, Cornelius Corkery, Debarati DasGupta, Esta Kor, Gabriel Ferns, Harsh Patel, Jima G., Jimin Park, Manjunath Ramarao, Matias Kaplan, Meredith Corley, Nick Boyd, Patricia Sinatra, Praveen Kumar, Ramya Rangan, Raphael Townshend, Sahirzeeshan (Sahir) Ali, Shaon Barman, Stephan Eismann, Stephanie Simmons, Tara Basu Trivedi, Yuzu Ido Ryan Chow, Tabitha Tcheau Benjamin Kim, Jory Bell, Nate Chang Gene Yeo, Roger Kornberg, Ron Dror
2024 46 Jake Yukich Adam P., Ahmed Zaeem, Alexander Lin, Brandon Anderson, Brent Townshend, Connor Stephens, Connor Stephens, Cornelius Corkery, Debarati DasGupta, Derek Leung, Esta Kor, Gabriel Ferns, Jima G., Jimin Park, Manjunath Ramarao, Mark Stead, Matias Kaplan, Meredith Corley, Minna Bui, Patricia Sinatra, Praveen Kumar, Ramya Rangan, Raphael Townshend, Sahirzeeshan (Sahir) Ali, Shaon Barman, Stephan Eismann, Stephanie Simmons, Suparna Gupta, Tim Sproul, Vincent Stark, Yuzu Ido Arthur Chase, Kevin Patel, Ryan Chow, Tabitha Tcheau Benjamin Kim, Jory Bell, Nate Chang Amanda Garner, Gene Yeo, Nicholas Meanwell, Percy Carter, Roger Kornberg, Ron Dror, Vishwanath Sathyanarayanan
2025 38 Adam P., Ahmed Zaeem, Alexander Lin, Brandon Anderson, Brent Townshend, Connor Stephens, Debarati DasGupta, Esta Kor, Jima G., Manjunath Ramarao, Manjunath Ramarao, Mark Stead, Matias Kaplan, Meredith Corley, Minna Bui, Patricia Sinatra, Praveen Kumar, Ramya Rangan, Raphael Townshend, Sahirzeeshan (Sahir) Ali, Stephan Eismann, Stephanie Simmons, Suparna Gupta, Tim Sproul, Yuzu Ido Arthur Chase, Kevin Patel, Kevin Patel, Ryan Chow Benjamin Kim, Jory Bell, Nate Chang Amanda Garner, Gene Yeo, Nicholas Meanwell, Percy Carter, Ron Dror, Vishwanath Sathyanarayanan
2026 35 Adam P., Ahmed Zaeem, Alexander Lin, Brandon Anderson, Brent Townshend, Connor Stephens, Debarati DasGupta, Esta Kor, Jima G., Manjunath Ramarao, Mark Stead, Meredith Corley, Minna Bui, Patricia Sinatra, Praveen Kumar, Ramya Rangan, Raphael Townshend, Sahirzeeshan (Sahir) Ali, Stephan Eismann, Stephanie Simmons, Suparna Gupta, Tim Sproul, Yuzu Ido Arthur Chase, Kevin Patel, Ryan Chow Benjamin Kim, Jory Bell, Nate Chang Amanda Garner, Gene Yeo, Nicholas Meanwell, Percy Carter, Ron Dror, Vishwanath Sathyanarayanan

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2021-01-01 1 Stephan Eismann
2022-01-01 8 Adrian Sanborn, April Schleck, Brent Townshend, Esta Kor, Matias Kaplan, Meredith Corley, Raphael Townshend, Stephan Eismann
2023-01-01 12 Adrian Sanborn, April Schleck, Ayah Abdeldayem, Brandon Anderson, Brent Townshend, Esta Kor, Jake Yukich, Jima G., Matias Kaplan, Meredith Corley, Raphael Townshend, Stephan Eismann
2024-01-01 24 Brandon Anderson, Brent Townshend, Connor Stephens, Cornelius Corkery, Debarati DasGupta, Esta Kor, Gabriel Ferns, Jake Yukich, Jima G., Jimin Park, Manjunath Ramarao, Mark Stead, Matias Kaplan, Meredith Corley, Minna Bui, Patricia Sinatra, Praveen Kumar, Ramya Rangan, Raphael Townshend, Sahirzeeshan (Sahir) Ali, Shaon Barman, Stephan Eismann, Stephanie Simmons, Yuzu Ido
2025-01-01 22 Adam P., Ahmed Zaeem, Alexander Lin, Brandon Anderson, Brent Townshend, Connor Stephens, Debarati DasGupta, Esta Kor, Jima G., Manjunath Ramarao, Mark Stead, Matias Kaplan, Meredith Corley, Minna Bui, Patricia Sinatra, Praveen Kumar, Raphael Townshend, Sahirzeeshan (Sahir) Ali, Stephan Eismann, Stephanie Simmons, Suparna Gupta, Tim Sproul
2026-01-01 23 Adam P., Ahmed Zaeem, Alexander Lin, Brandon Anderson, Brent Townshend, Connor Stephens, Debarati DasGupta, Esta Kor, Jima G., Manjunath Ramarao, Mark Stead, Meredith Corley, Minna Bui, Patricia Sinatra, Praveen Kumar, Ramya Rangan, Raphael Townshend, Sahirzeeshan (Sahir) Ali, Stephan Eismann, Stephanie Simmons, Suparna Gupta, Tim Sproul, Yuzu Ido

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
2021-01-01 1 1 0 Stephan Eismann
2021-05-01 2 1 0 Raphael Townshend
2021-06-01 3 1 0 Adrian Sanborn
2021-11-01 5 2 0 April Schleck, Brent Townshend
2021-12-01 6 1 0 Esta Kor
2022-01-01 9 3 0 Jory Bell, Matias Kaplan, Meredith Corley
2022-02-01 10 1 0 Ryan Chow
2022-03-01 11 1 0 Akshay Tambe
2022-04-01 12 1 0 Jima G.
2022-05-01 13 1 0 Brandon Anderson
2022-09-01 12 0 -1 Akshay Tambe
2022-10-01 13 1 0 Benjamin Kim
2022-11-01 14 1 0 Jake Yukich
2023-01-01 15 1 0 Ayah Abdeldayem
2023-02-01 17 2 0 Cornelius Corkery, Gabriel Ferns
2023-03-01 19 2 0 Patricia Sinatra, Stephanie Simmons
2023-05-01 20 1 0 Connor Stephens
2023-07-01 21 1 0 Yuzu Ido
2023-08-01 24 3 0 Nate Chang, Ramya Rangan, Sahirzeeshan (Sahir) Ali
2023-09-01 30 6 0 Gene Yeo, Harsh Patel, Roger Kornberg, Ron Dror, Shaon Barman, Tabitha Tcheau
2023-10-01 31 1 0 Manjunath Ramarao
2023-11-01 32 1 0 Jimin Park
2023-12-01 34 4 -2 Debarati DasGupta, Nick Boyd, Praveen Kumar, Tara Basu Trivedi April Schleck, Harsh Patel
2023-12-02 32 0 -2 Nick Boyd, Tara Basu Trivedi
2024-01-01 31 2 -3 Mark Stead, Minna Bui Adrian Sanborn, Ayah Abdeldayem, Ryan Chow
2024-02-01 32 2 -1 Ryan Chow, Suparna Gupta Shaon Barman
2024-03-01 34 2 0 Derek Leung, Vishwanath Sathyanarayanan
2024-04-01 34 2 -2 Nicholas Meanwell, Percy Carter Jimin Park, Roger Kornberg
2024-05-01 33 1 -2 Amanda Garner Jake Yukich, Tabitha Tcheau
2024-06-01 35 2 0 Kevin Patel, Tim Sproul
2024-07-01 35 3 -3 Alexander Lin, Arthur Chase, Vincent Stark Cornelius Corkery, Derek Leung, Gabriel Ferns
2024-08-01 34 0 -1 Connor Stephens
2024-08-02 35 1 0 Connor Stephens
2024-09-01 36 1 0 Ahmed Zaeem
2024-10-01 35 0 -1 Vincent Stark
2024-12-01 36 1 0 Adam P.
2025-01-01 34 0 -2 Ramya Rangan, Yuzu Ido
2025-01-02 35 1 0 Ramya Rangan
2025-02-01 35 1 -1 Yuzu Ido Manjunath Ramarao
2025-03-01 34 1 -2 Manjunath Ramarao Kevin Patel, Matias Kaplan
2025-03-02 35 1 0 Kevin Patel

List of people (58 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Raphael Townshend Founder & CEO 2021-05-01 full-time [3], [4], [5]
Mark Stead Head of Business Development 2024-01-01 full-time [6], [7], [5]
Stephan Eismann Founding Scientist, Head of Machine Learning 2021-01-01 full-time [3], [8], [5]
Brent Townshend Head of ML Data Generation 2021-11-01 full-time [3], [9], [5]
Manjunath Ramarao Acting CSO 2025-03-01 [10], [5]
Stephanie Simmons Head of People 2023-03-01 full-time [11], [12], [5]
Esta Kor Business Operations Manager 2021-12-01 full-time [3], [13], [5]
Arthur Chase Senior Research Associate 2024-07-01 [14], [15], [5]
Praveen Kumar Screening Lead 2023-12-01 full-time [16], [17], [5]
Kevin Patel Senior Research Associate 2025-03-02 full-time [18], [5]
Minna Bui Staff Scientist, Chemistry 2024-01-01 [6], [19], [5]
Meredith Corley Senior Scientist, Computational Biology 2022-01-01 full-time [3], [20], [5]
Tim Sproul Lead, Oncology and Translational Medicine 2024-06-01 full-time [14], [21], [5]
Brandon Anderson Staff Scientist, Machine Learning 2022-05-01 full-time [3], [22], [5]
Alexander Lin Machine Learning Scientist 2024-07-01 full-time [14], [23], [5]
Yuzu Ido Machine Learning Engineer II 2025-02-01 full-time [24], [5]
Suparna Gupta Project Management Lead 2024-02-01 full-time [25], [26], [5]
Debarati DasGupta Senior Scientist, Computational Chemistry 2023-12-01 full-time [16], [27], [5]
Connor Stephens Machine Learning Scientist 2024-08-02 full-time [28], [5], [29]
Ryan Chow Associate Scientist 2024-02-01 [6], [30], [5]
Ramya Rangan Senior Scientist, ML/Bio 2025-01-02 full-time [31], [5]
Nicholas Meanwell Advisor 2024-04-01 advisor [25], [5]
Amanda Garner Advisor 2024-05-01 advisor [32], [5]
Gene Yeo Advisor 2023-09-01 advisor [11], [5]
Ron Dror Advisor 2023-09-01 advisor [11], [5]
Percy Carter Advisor 2024-04-01 advisor [25], [5]
Ahmed Zaeem Chief of Staff 2024-09-01 full-time [33]
Benjamin Kim Board Member 2022-10-01 board member [34]
Vishwanath Sathyanarayanan Advisor 2024-03-01 advisor [35]
Jima G. Limited Partner 2022-04-01 [36]
Sahirzeeshan (Sahir) Ali Investor 2023-08-01 [37]
Patricia Sinatra Licensing and Portfolio Strategy 2023-03-01 [38]
Adam P. Platform Engineer 2024-12-01 full-time [39]
Nate Chang Board Member 2023-08-01 board member [40]
Jory Bell Board Member 2022-01-01 board member [41]
Kevin Patel Research Associate, Drug Discovery 2024-06-01 2025-03-01 full-time [14], [18], [42]
Yuzu Ido Machine Learning Engineer 2023-07-01 2025-01-01 full-time [11], [24], [42]
Connor Stephens Machine Learning Engineer 2023-05-01 2024-08-01 full-time [11], [28], [43]
Ryan Chow Staff Research Associate 2022-02-01 2024-01-01 full-time [3], [30], [16]
Ramya Rangan Scientist, ML / Bio 2023-08-01 2025-01-01 full-time [11], [31], [42]
Matias Kaplan Founding Scientist 2022-01-01 2025-03-01 [3], [44], [42]
Nick Boyd Staff Scientist, Machine Learning 2023-12-01 2023-12-02 [3], [16]
Akshay Tambe Member 2022-03-01 2022-09-01 [3], [11]
Jake Yukich Research Engineer 2022-11-01 2024-05-01 full-time [3], [45], [32]
April Schleck Founding Engineer & Engineering Lead 2021-11-01 2023-12-01 [3], [46], [11]
Adrian Sanborn Founding Scientist & Bioscience Lead 2021-06-01 2024-01-01 full-time [3], [47], [16]
Gabriel Ferns Machine Learning Engineer 2023-02-01 2024-07-01 full-time [11], [48], [49]
Ayah Abdeldayem Scientist, Screening 2023-01-01 2024-01-01 full-time [11], [50], [25]
Tabitha Tcheau Research Associate 2023-09-01 2024-05-01 [11], [32]
Cornelius Corkery Operations and Compliance Specialist 2023-02-01 2024-07-01 full-time [11], [51], [43]
Shaon Barman Senior Software Engineer 2023-09-01 2024-02-01 [11], [6]
Harsh Patel Software Engineer 2023-09-01 2023-12-01 [11], [16]
Roger Kornberg Advisor 2023-09-01 2024-04-01 advisor [11], [25]
Jimin Park Senior Scientist 2023-11-01 2024-04-01 [16], [52], [25]
Tara Basu Trivedi Chief of Staff 2023-12-01 2023-12-02 [16]
Derek Leung Strategy and Finance 2024-03-01 2024-07-01 intern [25], [53], [49]
Vincent Stark Engineering Lead 2024-07-01 2024-10-01 [14], [54]
Manjunath Ramarao Chief Scientific Officer 2023-10-01 2025-02-01 [16], [10], [42]

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