About
Miroslav Gasparek is CEO and co-founder of Sensible Biotechnologies, a cell-based mRNA production platform. He studied bioengineering at Imperial College London and engineering at Oxford, and has worked on Slovak biosecurity policy development.
Founder at Sensible BiotechnologiesYC S21
Intro paths
YC
Miroslav went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Sensible Biotechnologies's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Miroslav can intro founders to Sensible Biotechnologies's investors below.
Sensible Biotechnologies's investors · 6
BlueYard CapitalBerlin · $500K – $5M checks · since 2023Civilization Ventures Management, LlcTiburon · $1M – $10M checks · since 2023KAYAPrague · $108K – $3.2M checks · since 2023Recode VenturesSan Francisco · since 2023Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2021ZAKA VCSan Francisco · since 2023
Co-founders at Sensible Biotechnologies
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Marian KupculakFounder
Experience
- Sensible BiotechnologiesCEO and Co-Foundercurrent2021 — present
- Alliance for mRNA MedicinesBoard Membercurrent2025 — present
- Nucleate UKCo-founder and Managing Director2022 — 2025United Kingdom
- MHG ConsultingManaging Partner2021 — 2024Bratislava, Slovakia
- Ministry of Health of the Slovak RepublicSpecial Advisor to the Executive Board Member of the World Health Organisation2022 — 2024
- Ministry of Health of the Slovak RepublicSpecial Advisor to State Secretary of Ministry of Health2022 — 2023
- Stanford Existential Risks InitiativeResearch Fellow2021 — 2022
- Nodes Advisors AGResearch Fellow2022
- Civilization VenturesVenture Fellow2021 — 2022
- Newton Venture ProgramVenture Scholar2021
- University of OxfordGraduate Teaching Assistant2020 — 2021Greater Oxford Area
- IZP - Inštitút zdravotnej politikyExternal Consultant2020Bratislava, Slovakia
- Imperial College LondonBIOMOD Team Dry Lab Member2019London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College LondonUndergraduate Teaching Assistant2018 — 2019London Area, United Kingdom
- Stanford UniversityVisiting Research Intern, Endy Lab2018Palo Alto, California
- CaltechVisiting Research Student, Murray Lab2017
- Imperial College LondonUndergraduate Research Assistant, Tanaka Group2016 — 2017London Area, United Kingdom
- Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach)Value Delivery Consultant Intern2016Bratislava
- wells.skCo-Founder and Head of R&D2015 — 2016London Area, United Kingdom
- FreelancePrivate Mathematics & Physics Tutor2013 — 2015Puchov, Slovakia
Skills & more
Public Speaking68Strategic Planning3Leadership15Creativity Skills7TeamworkMatlab10Microsoft Office8C++2Python (Programming Language)LaTeXpythonResearch61
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Biomedical EngineeringPhysicsMathematicsMathematical ModelingData AnalysisProgrammingProject ManagementPolymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)Gel ElectrophoresisAstrophysicsControl EngineeringDynamical SystemsLanguages Czech · English · German · Slovak · Spanish
- Forbes 30 Under 30 Slovakia — Forbes Slovensko
- Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe - Science & Healthcare — Forbes
- Introduction to Genomic Technologies — Coursera
- Sample-based Learning Methods — Coursera
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects — Coursera
- Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning — Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
- TOEFL iBT — ETS
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Miroslav Gasparek?
- Miroslav Gasparek is CEO and co-founder of Sensible Biotechnologies, a cell-based mRNA production platform. He studied bioengineering at Imperial College London and engineering at Oxford, and has worked on Slovak biosecurity policy development.
- Where does Miroslav Gasparek work?
- Miroslav Gasparek is Founder of Sensible Biotechnologies.
- What companies did Miroslav Gasparek found?
- Miroslav Gasparek founded Sensible Biotechnologies.
- Where did Miroslav Gasparek go to school?
- Miroslav Gasparek studied at University of Oxford (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering); Y Combinator; Imperial College London (Master of Engineering (MEng), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering).
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