I’m thrilled to welcome Dan Davidi to Aleph. Dan is becoming a member of us as an Entrepreneur in Residence to pursue the areas of computational biology, artificial biology and the intersection between synthetic intelligence and the bodily sciences.

Dan earned his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science and established the artificial biology heart at Harvard Medical College earlier than shifting on to a significant position at Amazon. His mixture of economic and tutorial expertise, in addition to his worldwide community of distinctive and extremely related relationships in each science and enterprise, makes him an ideal candidate to concentrate on this space at Aleph.

We’re extraordinarily enthusiastic about what compute, machine studying fashions and synthetic intelligence imply for the way forward for atoms. We have now been spending time at Aleph studying about artificial biology for the previous couple of years and have lastly taken the plunge with the individual we regard as one of many foremost entrepreneurs, specialists and networkers within the discipline. We’re thrilled for Dan to guide the event of and funding in radical new applied sciences to resolve arduous, actual world issues. Our imaginative and prescient is to work with native expertise and gamers and set up strategic partnerships globally to speed up the creation of recent IP and related ventures. There will likely be particular emphasis on constructing an area bioconvergence neighborhood. We would like Israel to develop into the Boston of the Center East and this is step one towards making this long-term mission doable.

In case you are an entrepreneur eager about these areas, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with both me or Dan. We’re searching for very industrial and really disruptive companies that discover the convergence of compute and the bodily sciences to think about a greater world for humanity.