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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Experience
- GenentechDirector, Generative AI Foundationcurrent2026 — presentSouth San Francisco, California, United States
- ReviveMedChief Executive Officer2017 — 2026Greater Boston
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Postdoctoral Research Associate2016 — 2017Greater Boston
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Ph.D Research Assistant2011 — 2016Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- MerckSummer Intern2014Greater Boston
- Takeda OncologySummer Intern2013Cambridge, MA
- University of TehranMasters Research Assistant2008 — 2010Tehran, Iran
- 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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