Empower scientists and bioinformaticians to transform lives, and the world.
A Science-First Organization
Built on firsthand experience tackling the complexities of bioinformatics and data-driven science, Via Scientific was born from the drive to transform how discoveries are made.
The Foundry Platform was conceived, shaped, and refined over a decade of rigorous research at UMASS Chan Medical School, evolving organically to meet the demanding needs of world-class scientists and labs. Through countless iterations, it was tested, challenged, and perfected in real-world environments.
Today, Foundry stands as a uniquely powerful yet elegantly simple solution, empowering thousands of scientists and hundreds of labs, including those at leading BioPharma companies, research hospitals and globally recognized academic institutions. By delivering tools that bridge cutting-edge technology that amplify scientific intuition, we’re proud to equip the global scientific community with the power to push boundaries and achieve extraordinary breakthroughs.
Our Team
Via Scientific is a team of world-renowned scientists, bioinformaticians, AI experts, and entrepreneurs. We are committed to ensuring that the Foundry platform is user-friendly and that it will always accelerate your science.
Melissa J. Moore, PhD
Melissa is a biochemist and molecular biologist widely recognized for her work in eukaryotic RNA processing and metabolism. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and long-time HHMI investigator (first at Brandeis University and then at UMass Medical School), Melissa most recently served as chief scientific officer of Moderna where she helped develop the technologies enabling rapid development of Moderna's highly effective mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
Alper Kucukural, PhD
Alper is the creator of Foundry and is our Chief Technology Officer. Alper has extensive expertise in software development, machine learning & large-scale systems. Alper is passionate about the global need for reusable, robust and production grade bioinformatics analysis and platforms. He is also an associate professor of Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology at UMass Chan Medical School, where he is also co-director of the Bioinformatics Core.
Jim Crowley
Jim is our CEO and he has a deep and abiding passion for the opportunities presented by applying artificial intelligence technologies to large scale data sets and in building rapidly scaling companies. Jim is a technology entrepreneur many times over and is a veteran of the startup journey from ground zero, to IPO, and everything in between.
Manuel Garber, PhD
Manuel is an associate professor of Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology at UMass Chan Medical School where he also created and directs the Bioinformatics Core. Manuel’s background is in applied mathematics. He previously served as a computational biologist at the Broad Institute where he focused on analyzing the human genome sequence.
Janet Kosloff
Janet is an investor, entrepreneur and both founder and former CEO of InCrowd, the global market intelligence platform for the life sciences industry. InCrowd pioneered the field of micro-research by combining a powerful technology platform with a 2 million-strong panel of healthcare professionals and life science experts.
Our Advisors
Christopher Mason, PhD
Dr. Mason is a recognized leader in computational genomics and neuroscience. He currently serves as the co-founding Director of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction and as a Research Scholar at the WorldQuant Foundation. Additionally, he is a Professor of Computational Genomics at Weill Cornell Medicine's Institute for Computational Biomedicine.
Uğur Sezerman, PhD
Dr. Sezerman is a distinguished leader in computational biology and bioinformatics, currently serving as a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at Acibadem University in Istanbul. He was among the first researchers to successfully apply computational methods to protein-peptide binding prediction in the early 1990s.
Rob Hickey
Rob is a deeply experienced technology practitioner and executive many times over. As Executive Vice President of Engineering at DataRobot, one of the world’s largest pure play AI companies, Rob is intimately familiar with, and experienced in, rapidly scaling global AI systems and companies.
Eswar Priyadarshan
Eswar is a founder, executive and CTO many times over. He has significant experience in productizing, and bringing to market, complex technologies that sit at the intersection of AI, low latency data analytics and prompt engineering.
Jack Crowley
Jack has extensive experience with all aspects of NLP, machine learning, software development, and other associated technologies. He is an expert at creating novel and global intelligence capabilities through the application of NLP and other AI based technologies to massive data sets.
Work With Us
Democratizing science to change the world is no small task. It requires a team that is driven to make the impossible possible. We create and work with a broad range of cutting-edge technologies spanning bioinformatics, core engineering, big data, and AI, and seek professionals who share our ethos and come with a range of skills.
Relentlessly Inventive
Our customers seek to unlock fundamental biological truths and we hold ourselves to the same cause.
Team Oriented
We are team oriented but seek amazing individuality. We collaborate, we help each other and we challenge each other.
Passionate
Our customers dreams are our dreams and fulfilling them requires that we always bring our "A Game."
Own It
We strive to be individuals who crave ownership of a problem space and are focused on acceleration and drive.
Impatient
We pursue breakthroughs with determination, and seek others who are passionate about finding solutions.
Deeply Curious
We build technologies that enable scientific breakthroughs, driven by our customers' imagination.
Careers
If you’re ready to make a difference, and if the attributes above describe you, we want to hear from you.
Contact Us
Any Functional Specialty
Democratizing science to change the world is no small task. It requires a team that is driven to make the impossible possible. We create and work with a broad range of cutting-edge technologies spanning bioinformatics, core engineering, big data, and AI. We are actively seeking bioinformatics professionals, full-stack engineers, product management leaders, UX designers, marketers, and community managers.
If you’re ready to make a difference, and if the below attributes describe you, we want to hear from you. Please submit your resume to careers@viascientific.com.
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Foundry unlocks the power of multi-omics data so you can generate extraordinary scientific insights.