Director of Biomarkers and Experimental Medicine

Job description

About Xaira Therapeutics Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets. It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification. Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London. About the Role: We are seeking a scientific leader to serve as our Director of Biomarkers and Experimental Medicine. This role will create and execute biomarker strategies across discovery and early development, grounded in human biology and designed to scale from target-agnostic disease understanding through program-specific development. You will work closely with Biomedical AI to use multi-modal human data to identify biomarker signals, define patient hypotheses, and establish biomarkers that guide indication choices,...