The people who shape every cohort.
Mentors.
Mentors are the heart of the Fellowship. Each year we bring together a small class of recognised figures from the AI and biology world: principal investigators, founders, and research scientists, who commit to a one-year term. They open the year with the full cohort, run small-group sessions on research and career questions, stay reachable for the occasional async question, and make the final call on selection, shaping a cohort in their image.
The 2026 mentor class
Founders.
The people who started it
Fellows.
The 2026 cohort brings together perspectives from universities, research institutes and independent labs across Europe and North America.
An atlas of the 2026 cohort
21 fellows · 20 institutions and labs
Paris & Saclay
- CentraleSupélec
- École des Ponts
- École Normale Supérieure
- École Polytechnique
- ENS Paris-Saclay
- Institut Curie
- Institut Pasteur
- Kyutai
- Living Models
- Mines Paris
- PMMH
- Télécom Paris
- Université Paris Dauphine
London & Cambridge
- Imperial College London
- Queen Mary University of London
- UCL
- University of Cambridge
Dublin
- RCSI Dublin
Montréal & Munich
- Mila
- Helmholtz Munich
Pioneers.
Pioneers are the broader constellation of founders, builders, and leading voices shaping AI x Biology in each hub. Their investment is lighter than mentor's. They give signal: they lend their name publicly to the Fellowship, show up at the annual flagship event, and offer Fellows the occasional introduction or short conversation.
Across Paris, London and Stanford, we're building a visible network of credible Pioneers per hub, drawn from the strongest companies and labs at the BioAI frontier.
The 2026 pioneer class
Paul Herent
Raidium
Dorothy Chou
Google DeepMind
Thomas Clozel
Owkin
David Del Bourgo
Whitelab Genomics
Etienne Formstecher
GMT Science
Elise Guillaume Mekkaoui
Matricis AI
Maliha Khalid
Elix
Emilia McGaughlin
Kyron
Sophie Monnier
InstaDeep
Amine Raji
SporeBio
Karl Tuyls
Imec
Jean-Philippe Vert
Bioptimus