Nicolas Tilmans
Advisor at Gate Bioscience
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Tilmans is a Ph.D. biochemist-turned-founder and advisor with 11 years of experience building AI-driven drug discovery and medical data platforms. He founded and scaled Anagenex from concept to a 30-person company, raising over $40M and executing strategic M&A and licensing deals before selling the platform in 2025. His background spans hands-on molecular biology and high-throughput chemistry through to production-grade machine learning and HIPAA-compliant engineering, having led engineering and data teams at Lumiata to halve compute times and achieve SOC2 and DR compliance. Known for recruiting senior talent from top pharma and biotech, he bridges the lab and the cloud and excels at translating complex science into actionable business strategy. Based in San Francisco, he now advises biotech startups, bringing rare end-to-end expertise from molecule synthesis and selection to deployed AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Biochemistry Computer Science, BS Biochemistry Computer Science at University of MarylandPhD Biochemistry, PhD Biochemistry at Stanford University
French, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
statistics6
pandas6
python6
matplotlib6
data-science5
visualization5
data-visualization5
configurations4
data-analysis4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
paulk-lab/FastSeq-pipeline
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Scripts and configurations for processing FastSeq results
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 months
configurations
entee/drugscope
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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