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Team

Laura White, PhD

Laura White, PhD

CEO, Co-Founder

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.

Jake Armstrong, MBA

Jake Armstrong, MBA

COO, Co-Founder

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

Jay Hesselberth, PhD

Jay Hesselberth, PhD

Scientific Co-Founder

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

Kezia Dobson

Kezia Dobson

Founding Scientist

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.

Aleksandar Radakovic, PhD

Aleksandar Radakovic, PhD

Scientific Advisor

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.

Spike Willcocks, PhD

Spike Willcocks, PhD

Strategic Advisor

Co-founder, Oxford Nanopore Technologies.

The front range of RNA science.

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.

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