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Michael Retchin

Founder of NewCo

New York, New York

Overview

Work Experience

NewCo

  • Founder

    2024 - Current

    Building scientific intelligence.

N

Nucleate

  • Co-President

    2023 - 2024

    Largest global startup accelerator and community for biotech.

  • Founding EVP, Strategy

    2020 - 2023

    Directed global expansion as a member of the founding executive team.

MS

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  • Researcher, Chodera Lab

    2020 - 2024

    Worked on reinforcement learning for drug discovery.

PV

Pillar VC

  • Senior Associate

    2020 - 2023

    Partnered with founders of life sciences companies.

PT

ProFound Therapeutics

  • Machine Learning

    2020 - 2020

    First ML engineer. Developed new methods for proteomics.

FP

Flagship Pioneering

  • Machine Learning

    2017 - 2020

    ProFound Therapeutics (2020) Cellarity (2017-2019)

MI

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Researcher, Shalek Lab

    2019 - 2019

    Developed ML methods for optimizing organoids.

C

Cellarity

  • Founding Team

    2017 - 2019

    Led ML at therapeutics startup from inception through Series A. Developed the original technology.

VC

Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

  • Researcher, Sarkar Lab

    2014 - 2015

    My twin brother and I developed an RNA language model based on LSTMs. I validated the model's predictions in the wet lab.

Education

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