Enabling happier and healthier lives.
Our vision
Humankind is still suffering from diseases that are considered incurable.
We design and discover medicines for these incurable diseases through novel mechanisms of action by exploiting AI to build proximity-inducing compounds (PICs™). We envision a society where patients and physicians have precise control of pathogenic human protein concentrations via small molecules.
Our mission
Our mission is to give patients with significant unmet needs control over their pathogenic proteins by bringing multiple first-in-class small molecule drugs to market by 2035.
PICs™ induce proximity to cellular machinery and require a deep understanding of chemistry and biology to be successfully built. We developed our Celeris® One™ platform to design such drugs while continuously improving rationally.
Our platform computationally predicts and designs the components necessary to induce protein proximity. It automates subsequent chemical and biological tasks before proceeding through multiple design-make-test iterations to develop medicines for high unmet medical needs.
Driven by people.
Team
Christopher Trummer
CEO, Co-Founder and President
Jakob Hohenberger
CFO/COO, Co-Founder and Director
Dr. Friedrich Kroll
VP Drug Discovery
Christopher Trummer
CEO and Co-Founder
Jakob Hohenberger
CFO/COO and Co-Founder
Dr. Friedrich Kroll
VP Drug Discovery
Dr. Markus Müllner
VP Biology
Noah Weber
CTO
Dr. Markus Müllner
VP Biology
Noah Weber
CTO
Alexandra Moik
Research Scientist
Dr. Arjun Rao
Senior ML Researcher
Dr. Oskar Hoff
Head of Medicinal Chemistry
Dr. Michael Brunsteiner
Principal Scientist Comp. Chemistry
Alexandra Moik
Research Scientist
Dr. Arjun Rao
Dr. Oskar Hoff
Dr. Michael Brunsteiner
Dr. Michael Müller
ML Researcher
Chiara Gasbarri
Computational Chemist
Tatjana Hirschmugl
Scientific Illustrations and Arts
Dr. Alexander Dürr
Computational Chemist
Dr. Michael Müller
ML Researcher
Chiara Gasbarri, MSc.
Tatjana Hirschmugl, MSc.
Dr. Alexander Dürr
Sara Weiß
Finance and Operations
Tin Tunjic
ML Engineer
Mag. Sara Weiß
Tin Tunjic, MSc.
Board of Directors
Marius Swart
Board Director
Karel Kubias
Board Director
Dr. Peter Ho
Board Director
Dr. Ronjon Nag
Board Observer and Advisor
Petr Sramek
Board Observer and Advisor
Marius Swart
Board Director
Karel Kubias
Board Director
Dr. Peter Ho
Board Director
Petr Sramek
Board Observer and Advisor
Dr. Ronjon Nag
Board Observer and Advisor
Scientific Advisory Board
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Johannes Kirchmair
University of Vienna
Computational Drug Discovery & Design Group
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Günter Klambauer
Johannes Kelper University of Linz
AI & Drug Discovery
Prof. Dr. Ola Spjuth
University of Uppsala
Pharmaceutical Biosciences and Bioinformatics
Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Reymond
University of Bern
Chemistry and Drug Design
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Johannes Kirchmair
University of Vienna
Computational Drug Discovery & Design Group
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Günter Klambauer
Johannes Kelper University of Linz
AI & Drug Discovery
Prof. Dr. Ola Spjuth
University of Uppsala
Pharmaceutical Biosciences and Bioinformatics
Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Reymond
University of Bern
Chemistry and Drug Design
