Our team

Abraham Chaibi

CEO

Abraham is the CEO of Aequita Bioworks. He formerly founded a high-frequency trading firm specializing in black box price prediction models, and enjoys reading and learning about new applications of science to improve the lives of Americans!

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Bao Do

Operations Research Specialist

Bao is an organically trained chemist who transitioned into analytical and formulation chemistry. He enjoys solving complex problems and using cross-disciplinary skills to develop practical, data-driven solutions.

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Dat Nguyen

Research Associate

Dat is awesome!

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John McSpedon

CTO

John has a strong interest in ML and biotech. He was the first employee at Merantix, a Berlin-based AI accelerator. John's optimized protein materials at Cambrium GmbH and mined metagenomes for new gene editing tools at Arc Institute. In his free time John enjoys cycling and rock climbing.

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Kevin Tanaka

Lab Manager

Kevin is a versatile Lab Operations Manager with a background as a Protein Biochemist with extensive Bacterial Protein Expression, Purification, and Characterization experience from 20 years of in-lab experience.

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Naveen Bojjireddy

Associate Director

Naveen is awesome!

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Samantha Watson

Senior Scientist

Sam is protein and biologics scientist who is passionate about bringing energy, creativity and technical refinement to the lab

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Yinan Wu

Principal Scientist

With eight years dedicated to antibody engineering, Yinan has contributed to the humanization and optimization of several antibody formats including monoclonal, multi-specific, and ADCs. It's been rewarding for her to see several of these efforts progress to clinical trials, where the humanized antibodies have demonstrated encouraging safety profiles.

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