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Viswa Colluru

Viswa is CEO of Enveda Biosciences. He founded Enveda after leading cross-functional teams across innovation, product strategy, and translational biology as an early employee at Recursion Pharmaceuticals. He holds a Ph.D. in immuno-oncology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he developed new therapeutic agents for the treatment of prostate cancer. At Enveda, he leads a world-class team of machine learning scientists and drug hunters engaged in unlocking the potential of nature’s chemistry for drug discovery. By leveraging breakthroughs in computational metabolomics and machine learning, the Enveda platform works like a “chemical search engine” to predict new drug-like chemicals at scale. Enveda’s internal teams then advance these drug candidates through preclinical and clinical testing. With an initial focus on unraveling the chemical secrets of medicinal plants that have been used for thousands of years, Enveda’s first molecules are targeted towards cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurodegenerative conditions