We are building
a next-gen pharma company

Vial was founded on a mission to reimagine drug development by building for hyper scale.

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Meet Our Team

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Simon Burns Co-founder, CEO

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Max James Chief Business Officer

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Samir Meghji Chief Financial Officer

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Catie Neel VP of People

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Carlos Naranjo VP of Business Development

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John Sheperdson Director, Business Development

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Paolo Mastrangelo Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

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Albert Kokoshi Director of Design

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Sarah Wise Director of Scientific Operations

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Joshua Pascoe Chief Operations Officer

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Dhruba Biswas Director of Product

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Elia Lopez Lead Scientist

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Etunim Mike Clinical Project Manager

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Jared Sharp Sr. Manager, Scientific Operations

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Hugo Adam Sr. Sales Development Representative

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Collin AndersonClinical Trial Associate

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Igor Corrêa Director of Engineering

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Bhavika JoshiAssociate Director of Quality

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Preeti Sareen Head of Strategy

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Lyhour Lay Software Engineer III

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Swati Khanna Director, Antibody Discovery

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Paolo Castro Software Engineer

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Wei-Sheng Chen Principal Scientist, Oligonucleotides

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Aleina Lee Controller

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Glenn Fitzpatrick Clinical Trial Site Lead

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Urann Chan Strategy and Operations Associate

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Ana Peredo Sr. Associate, Strategy

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Vanessa Nguyen Strategy Associate

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Florida Guxholli Director of Federal Affairs

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Deepa Patel Clinical Trial Nurse

Our Investors

We have raised $100M+ to reimagine drug development.

Scientific Advisory Board

Vial CRO is supported by a team of Scientific Advisors who review and provide input on the strategy and direction of our program development.

Bladder Cancer Director at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Professor of Medicine and Presidential Endowed Chair of Cancer Research at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
More than 10 years as a Vitreo-Retinal Physician and Surgeon, as well as Director of Clinical Research at his practice, Sierra Eye Associates
Director of Summit Cancer Centers, Medical Oncologist
Director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at The University of Arizona and founder of NeuTherapeutics
Senior physician of Pariser Dermatology Specialist and Principal Investigator
VP, Early Stage Development at Seagen
Professor of Medicine, Professor of Surgery, and Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the University of California Los Angeles
Associate Professor in the Department of Dermatology and Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology at Harvard Medical School
Director of Retina Services at the Pepose Vision Institute
VP, Early Stage Development at Seagen
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Dr. Egilius L.H. Spierings

Founder, Medical Director, and Investigator at MedVadis Research Corporation
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Dr. Rajat Agrawal

VP of Clinical Development and Ophthalmology Lead at Rezolute, Inc. and the founder, president, and CEO of an international nonprofit, Retina Global
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Dr. Stewart Tepper

Professor of Neurology and Neurologist at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
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Dr. Jacqueline French

Professor of Neurology at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the President, Director, and Founder of The Epilepsy Study Consortium.
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Dr. Christopher Sweeney

Director of the South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute (SAiGENCI) and Professor of Medicine at the University of Adelaide
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Dr. Peter Goadsby

Director of the NIHR Wellcome Trust at the King's College Clinical Research Facility and Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco
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Dr. Veeral Sheth

Director of Clinical Research at the University Retina and Macula Associates and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois
Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Founder, Owner, and CEO of Diverge Translational Science Laboratory
Professor and Chair of Dermatology, Residency Program Director of Translational Research, and Director of Supportive Oncodermatology at George Washington University
Medical Director for Lean and Quality Improvement, Chair of the Lymphoma/Myeloma Disease Working Group, and Associate Professor at the University of Kansas
Chief of the Parkinson’s and Movement Disorder Division at the University of Kansas Medical Center
Professor of Neurology and Director of the Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic at the Baylor College of Medicine
Professor of Neurology and Director of the Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic at the Baylor College of Medicine
Clinical Executive Director at AccessHope
Genitourinary Medical Oncology Professor and Physician at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Chief of Clinical Trials at Vanderbilt University

We are reimagining drug discovery

Powered by a computational discovery engine and automated clinical trials, our hyper scalable model is transforming drug development.