About
Adair Borges holds a PhD from UCSF and has published extensively in parasitology, virology, and genomics. She is a coinventor on patents for anti-CRISPR proteins, previously served as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley, and led a venture creation team at an early-stage biotech company before founding Ditto Biosciences to develop therapeutics for autoimmune disease.
Adair @adairlborges
Finally got around to writing up some of our progress at @dittobio ! Check out our inaugural blog post to learn how my favorite parasites (aka viruses π) can improve target selection and discover blockbuster drug mechanisms for autoimmune disease: https://t.co/XZ9FbCiNhR
Mar 4, 2026 Β· β₯ 9 Β· β 2
Adair @adairlborges
@dittobio @joeBondyDenomy Also during my archeology of Joe's twitter I found this unhinged gift we made for his job talk featuring the lab + @seemaychou π€£ https://t.co/TDSLEBPPu1
Feb 24, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Adair @adairlborges
A decade ago my benchmate Lina Leon and I were studying viruses and CRISPR together in grad school. Now Linaβs building immune assays at @dittobio to test our therapeutics proteins! Maybe the real PhD is the friends you make along the way [photo cred @joeBondyDenomy, 2016] https://t.co/S9zUfDehMk
Feb 24, 2026 Β· β₯ 8 Β· β 1
Founder at Ditto BiosciencesYC W26
Intro paths
Adair went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Ditto Biosciences's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Adair can intro founders to Ditto Biosciences's investors below.
Ditto Biosciences's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Ditto Biosciences
