
Laura White, PhD
Co-invented aa-tRNA-seq and led its development in the Hesselberth Lab. PhD in molecular biology. Strategy consultant turned tRNA biologist, working across experimental and computational method development.

Co-invented aa-tRNA-seq and led its development in the Hesselberth Lab. PhD in molecular biology. Strategy consultant turned tRNA biologist, working across experimental and computational method development.

15+ years building and scaling SaaS and ML platforms (IBM, BryterCX). Leads product, commercial, and the ML platform.

Co-invented aa-tRNA-seq. Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Director of the University of Colorado RNA Bioscience Initiative.

Joins from the Hesselberth Lab; leads wet lab operations and project execution. Optimized and validated the published aa-tRNA-seq method into commercial-grade SOPs.

Developed the covalent-capture chemistry behind aa-tRNA-seq during his PhD in Jack Szostak's lab. Helen Hay Whitney Fellow at the University of Chicago, investigating the origins of translation.

Co-founder, Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
Andon Bio is a spinout of the RNA Bioscience Initiative at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Our core technology grew out of Colorado's robust, 40-year-old RNA research ecosystem, a self-replicating community translating foundational science into new discoveries.