about us
The Variant Bio founding team
Our founding team has a passion for exploration, and expertise spanning genetics, molecular biology, and therapeutics. They started Variant Bio because they share the belief that human genomics has the power to transform drug development.
Kaja Wasik, PhD
CSO & Co-founder
Kaja has spent her career developing novel sequencing platforms and bringing them to market. She completed her PhD in molecular biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and postdoctoral training at the New York Genome Center.
Stephane Castel, PhD
CTO & Co-founder
Stephane has deep expertise analyzing the genome to understand how genetic variation contributes to disease. He completed his PhD in genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and postdoctoral training at Columbia University.
Akhila Kosaraju, MD
President & Co-founder
Akhila has over 10 years of biotech executive experience and was a former White House appointee. She completed her MD at Columbia University and BA in Human Biology at Stanford University.
Meet the rest of the team
Anne-Katrin Emde, PhD
Head of Bioinformatics
Erin Burke, PhD
Head of Partnership Development
Tyler Standley
Software Engineer
Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer, PhD
Cultural Anthropology Consultant
Natalie O'Shea, MPhil
Anthropology Intern
Tom Martienssen
Filmmaker
Our advisors
Jay Flatley
Executive Chairman, Illumina
Bruce Stillman, PhD
President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Daniel MacArthur, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Kiran Musunuru, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Schatz, PhD
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Fernando Racimo, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
Our investors
our approach
Company culture
Our team is rapidly expanding, and we’re looking for people who aren't afraid to take on new challenges, and are as passionate about improving human health as we are. We're located in New York City, and have a great work environment based out of a beautiful office in New Lab.
We guarantee a work environment that respects and encourages diversity around gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, socioeconomic status, religion, ethnicity, race, and culture.
Be a part of Variant Bio
Job openings
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Biostatistican · New York
We’re seeking someone who has expertise working with large scale biomedical datasets and modeling quantitative phenotypes in the context of human health.
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Data Scientist · New York
We’re seeking someone with experience using machine learning approaches to analyze large scale biomedical data and mine scientific literature.
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Statistical Geneticist · New York
We’re seeking someone with expertise using modern statistical genetics approaches, including genome wide association studies, to identify trait-associated genetic variants in large cohorts with sequencing derived genotype data.
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Population Geneticist · New York
We’re seeking someone with the ability to use population genetics to understand global variation in human phenotypes.
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