Mark DePristo
Researcher · Founder
Now Advisor, BigHat Biosciences
Latest on AI4S.fyiFunding · Sep 24 · founderBigHat Biosciences · Series C · $75MAccount links back to bighatbio.com · Avatar from their X account, taken 2026-10-01
Affiliations
Current
- Advisor · BigHat Biosciences
Previous
- Founder and CEO · BigHat Biosciences
Also named in the companies' announcements: Google, Broad Institute
Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.
About
Mark DePristo founded BigHat Biosciences in 2019 and was its CEO until 2025; BigHat now lists him as an advisor, and he has since started Ember AI, a venture studio for companies at the meeting of computation and biology. Earlier he founded and led the genomics team in Google Brain, was vice president of informatics at SynapDx, and co-directed medical and population genetics at the Broad Institute. He holds a BA in computer science and math from Northwestern and a PhD in biochemistry from Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar, and was a Damon Runyon Fellow at Harvard in evolutionary biology.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: planitpurple.northwestern.edu ↗ · bighatbio.com ↗
Selected work
- A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data ↗
A framework for finding genetic variants and calling genotypes from next-generation sequencing data.
Each byline was read on the paper itself. Only people on this record are named, not the full author list, and a shared byline does not say who did which part.
Founded
BigHat BiosciencesProtein design · 2019 · 3 rounds on record · disclosed $169M · Series C $75MBackground: Google AI (head of genomics); Broad Institute (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Peyton Greenside
Backed byDFJ GrowthPremji InvestSection 32Andreessen Horowitz
Nothing else on the record names them yet.
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