Find your path to Adair
343 people in our graph share verified history with Adair — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
Arhaan A.unlockedAdair: together at University of California, Berkeley (2022)
Adair: together at Arcadia Science
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×4Adair: together at University of California, Berkeley
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.
Founder at Ditto BiosciencesYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Adair went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Ditto Biosciences's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Adair can intro founders to Ditto Biosciences's investors below.
Ditto Biosciences's investors · 1
Co-founders at Ditto Biosciences
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Dennis SunFounder
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Emily WeissFounder
Experience
- Ditto Bio (YC W26)Cofoundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Arcadia ScienceTeam Lead2023 — 2025Berkeley, California, United States
- Arcadia ScienceScientist I-II2022 — 2023Berkeley, California, United States
- University of California, BerkeleyMiller Research Fellow2020 — 2022Berkeley, California, United States
- Acrigen BiosciencesScientific Consultant2020
- University of California, San FranciscoGraduate Student Researcher2014 — 2020San Francisco, California, United States
- University of PittsburghUndergraduate Student Researcher2012 — 2014Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Adair Borges?
- 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.
- Where does Adair Borges work?
- Adair Borges is Founder of Ditto Biosciences.
- What companies did Adair Borges found?
- Adair Borges founded Ditto Biosciences.
- Where did Adair Borges go to school?
- Adair Borges studied at Y Combinator; University of California, San Francisco (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Sciences); University of Pittsburgh (Bachelor's degree, Microbiology).
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