Our Team

Founders

Led by a world class management and advisory team with complementary expertise in the pathobiology of autoimmune diseases, computational biology, medicinal chemistry, drug development, clinical trial design, and regulatory strategy. We believe the solution to complex diseases requires a system based approach.

Scientific Advisory Board

The Athos Therapeutics Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is comprised of an unrivaled, international group of world-renowned leaders who are experts in the fields of immunology, inflammatory bowel diseases, drug discovery and development. They are providing strategic and scientific advice to the Athos management team in order to guide the development of our innovative therapeutic programs for autoimmune diseases.

Departments

Computational Biology & Artificial Intelligence

Infrastructure to analyze complex molecular and clinical data derived from samples from patients with autoimmune diseases, using an artificial intelligence framework

Computational Biology and Artificial Intelligence group photo in suits in front of gray wall

Riccardo Calandrelli ​

Principal Scientist II

Dimitra Chalkia, PhD

VP, Computational Biology

June Guo, PhD

VP, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Colin Robertson

Director, Product Design

Tung Hoang

Director, Software Architecture

Analytical Chemistry

Perform quality control analysis, including absorption, delivery and solubility of the drug compounds developed by the medicinal chemistry team

Phithi Nguyen

VP, Analytical Chemistry & Quality Assurance

Nalin Singh, PhD

Senior Research Scientist, Analytical Chemistry

Medicinal Chemistry

Infrastructure to design and synthesize new chemical drug compounds against gene targets identified by our computational platform

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David G. Ho, PhD

VP, Medicinal Chemistry & Intellectual Property

Yonglong Xiao, PhD

Senior Scientist II, Medicinal Chemistry

Operations

Supporting day to day business operations, including finance, human resources and lab management.

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Errin Gilliland

Executive Administrative Assistant

Jodi Pantuck

CHIEF OF STAFF & OPERATIONS

Jonathan Abdala

Assistant Director of Operations

Regulatory Affairs

Regulatory strategy planning for novel drug development (quality, nonclinical, clinical), support regulatory submissions, and interact with US FDA & global regulatory agencies to conduct clinical studies to establish safety & efficacy of novel drugs.

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Priti Prasad, PhD, MS

Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs

Translational Biology

Evaluate the safety and efficacy profile of novel drug compounds in cellular and animal models of autoimmune diseases and cancer.

2 men and 2 women in the cellular and animal studies group

Iordanis Karagiannidis, PhD

CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER

Malvina Tsamouri, DVM, PhD, MSc

Assistant Director of Translational Medicine

George Dialynas, PhD

Senior Director, Translational Biology

Ellen O' Connor, PhD

Senior Scientist I, Translational Biology