About Us

Our Mission

Building the AI Co-Scientist for drug discovery — starting with mRNA therapeutics.

The Challenge

Traditional therapeutic design is slow, expensive, and limited by human intuition. It takes years and billions of dollars to bring a single drug to market.

Most potential therapeutics never make it past early development due to unforeseen issues with efficacy, safety, or manufacturing.

Our Approach

We combine evolutionary algorithms, protein language models, and AgentFabric™ to explore therapeutic sequence space at unprecedented scale.

Our platform optimizes for multiple objectives simultaneously: potency, safety, stability, and manufacturability, to deliver better candidates faster.

Our Values

What Drives Us

Scientific Rigor

We pursue the truth with intellectual honesty and reproducible methods.

Patient First

Every decision is guided by our mission to help patients in need.

Bold Innovation

We tackle the hardest problems with creativity and determination.

Team

Leadership Team

The only team building an equivariant foundation model for mRNA. Computational biology research + enterprise systems + pharma commercialization. Vertical depth in mRNA where others go horizontal.

Dr. Ivan Garibay

Dr. Ivan Garibay

Co-Founder & Founding CEO

Director, Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory at UCF. Pioneer in evolutionary computation and multi-agent systems.

Dr. Edwin Nassiff

Dr. Edwin Nassiff

Co-Founder & Founding COO

Former CTO of Enterprise Information Systems at Lockheed Martin Corporation. Former CIO in the US Government.

Dr. Sanjay Padhi

Dr. Sanjay Padhi

Co-Founder & Founding CTO

Co-architect of the Helixir AI. Former Head of AWS Research. CTO of Tag.bio. 20+ years AI and cloud. 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Physics (CERN Collaboration).

Mark Pitman

Mark Pitman

Head of Commercialization

20+ years of experience building and scaling biotech companies

Milestones

Our Journey

From foundational research to NeurIPS — the milestones that shaped DeepBio Scientific.

2026
Industry Recognition
January 19, 2026

Accepted into NVIDIA Inception Program

Just one week after founding, DeepBio Scientific joins NVIDIA's global startup community defining the future of AI and accelerated computing — unlocking access to cutting-edge GPU infrastructure, technical expertise, and go-to-market support.

About NVIDIA Inception
Company Founded
January 12, 2026

DeepBio Scientific Founded

Founded by scientists and industry leaders with deep expertise in evolutionary computation, enterprise systems, cloud infrastructure, and biotech commercialization.

2025
NeurIPS 2025
December 2025

Equi-mRNA Accepted at NeurIPS 2025

Our protein-translation equivariant mRNA language model was accepted at NeurIPS 2025 — achieving ~10% better accuracy and ~4x more realistic mRNA constructs than existing approaches.

NeurIPS 2025
NSF Funded
October 2025

Funded by NSF I-Corps

Awarded NSF I-Corps Regional Team funding — validating the commercial potential of DeepBio's AI-driven drug discovery platform through rigorous customer discovery and market validation.

About NSF I-Corps
2023
Media Coverage
August 2, 2023

UCF AI Drug Discovery Feature

UCF researchers featured in the press for advancing AI-assisted drug discovery — highlighting the potential to dramatically cut the billions of dollars and decades of time traditional drug development demands.

Read the article

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