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Leila Pirhaji

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Founder at ReviveMed

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedReviveMed

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About

Leila Pirhaji is Director of the Generative AI Foundation at Genentech, where she leads the technical foundation for agentic AI used across Genentech and Roche. She previously founded ReviveMed, a spinout of her MIT PhD that applied AI to metabolite data and was adopted by 40% of the top-10 pharmaceutical companies across metabolic and oncology indications. Pirhaji holds a PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT, trained at ETH Zürich, has industry experience at Merck and Takeda, and has been named a TED Fellow and an MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator.

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Good Growth CapitalCharlestonMassChallengeTeam Builder VenturesSan Francisco · since 2018TechU VenturesCedarhurstWorldQuant VenturesOld Greenwich · since 2018

Experience

  1. GenentechDirector, Generative AI Foundationcurrent2026 — presentSouth San Francisco, California, United States
  2. ReviveMedChief Executive Officer2017 — 2026Greater Boston
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Postdoctoral Research Associate2016 — 2017Greater Boston
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Ph.D Research Assistant2011 — 2016Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  5. MerckSummer Intern2014Greater Boston
  6. Takeda OncologySummer Intern2013Cambridge, MA
  7. University of TehranMasters Research Assistant2008 — 2010Tehran, Iran
  8. ETH ZurichVisiting Scientist2009Zurich, Switzerland

Skills & more

Systems Biology99Computational Biology99Machine Learning99Computational Genomics37Mathematical Modeling71Data Analysis95DNA sequencing43Python60R62Generative AI14

Languages English · Farsi

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Who is Leila Pirhaji?
Leila Pirhaji is Director of the Generative AI Foundation at Genentech, where she leads the technical foundation for agentic AI used across Genentech and Roche. She previously founded ReviveMed, a spinout of her MIT PhD that applied AI to metabolite data and was adopted by 40% of the top-10 pharmaceutical companies across metabolic and oncology indications. Pirhaji holds a PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT, trained at ETH Zürich, has industry experience at Merck and Takeda, and has been named a TED Fellow and an MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator.
Where does Leila Pirhaji work?
Leila Pirhaji is Founder of ReviveMed.
What companies did Leila Pirhaji found?
Leila Pirhaji founded ReviveMed.
Where did Leila Pirhaji go to school?
Leila Pirhaji studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biological/Biosystems Engineering); MIT Sloan Executive Education (Minor, Business Administration and Management); University of Tehran (Master's degree, Biotechnology).

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