Michael Retchin
Founder of NewCo
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2024 - Current
Building scientific intelligence.
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.
a collaborative venture program enabling the formation of biotechnology companies addressing climate & sustainability challenges
Researcher, Chodera Lab
2020 - 2024
Worked on reinforcement learning for drug discovery.
Senior Associate
2020 - 2023
Partnered with founders of life sciences companies.
Pillar VC invests in seed-stage companies, supporting unstoppable founders with capital, connections, coaching, and peer support.
Machine Learning
2020 - 2020
First ML engineer. Developed new methods for proteomics.
Machine Learning
2017 - 2020
ProFound Therapeutics (2020) Cellarity (2017-2019)
Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Researcher, Shalek Lab
2019 - 2019
Developed ML methods for optimizing organoids.
Founding Team
2017 - 2019
Led ML at therapeutics startup from inception through Series A. Developed the original technology.
Cellarity is a therapeutics company that uses genomic technologies, data science, and AI to develop a new generation of therapies.
Raised $294,000,000.00 from Kyowa Kirin, Flagship Pioneering and Hanwha Impact Partners.
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
PhD
2020 - 2024
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2016 - 2020
High School Diploma
2015 - 2016