Meet The Team

Harmonic Team

Founder & CSO

Marcel Patek, PhD

Marcel has a 25+ years of experience in drug discovery. Previously he was the Director of Chemistry at Sanofi and the Vice President of chemistry at ICAGEN. He has over 10 years of experience in small molecule kinase inhibitor drug discovery.

Founder & COO

Jason Lee, MD

Jason completed his MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously, he was a healthcare investor at OrbiMed Advisors, Business Development at Pacira Pharmaceuticals and healthcare investment banking at Deutsche Bank.

Founder & CEO

Rayees Rahman, PhD

Rayees completed his PhD in Biophysics and Systems Pharmacology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously he was a computational biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering. He has extensively published on machine learning for kinase structural biology.

Director of Data Science

Anna Cichonska, PhD

Anna completed her PhD at Aalto University and her Post-doctoral studies at the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM). Previously, she was a Senior Data Scientist at Nightingale Health. Anna has extensive experience in developing machine learning models for kinase drug discovery.

Associate Director of Chemical Informatics

Guru Ravikumar, PhD

Guru completed his PhD at the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Institute of Molecular Medicine. Previously, he was a Software Modeling Engineer at Orion Diagnostica. Guru has exceptional experience in kinase cheminformatics and chemical analysis and has published articles in Cell Chemical Biology.

Computational Biology

Juhi Somani, PhD

Juhi completed her PhD and Post-doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki. She is a seasoned computational biologist with an expertise in
analyzing large-scale biological datasets. She has published methods in Nature Microbiology, Genome Medicine, and Diabetes.

Cheminformatics and Medicinal Chemistry

Navriti Sahni, PhD

Navriti completed her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Punjabi University, in India. She has designed and synthesized kinase inhibitors that target multiple targets, such as a dual inhibitor of MET and PI3Ka.

Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board

Board of Directors

Joel Dudley, PhD

Joel is the Chief Scientific Officer at Tempus Labs and a Board Member of Harmonic Discovery. Previously he was the Director of the Institute for Next Generation Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Scientific Advisory Board

Olivier Elemento, PhD

Oliver is a Professor and Head of Cancer Systems Biology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also the Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

Scientific Advisory Board

Tero Aittokallio, PhD

Tero is a Professor at the Olso Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and a Group Leader at the Institute for Cancer Research at Oslo University, and at the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine.