Tommaso Biancalani, PhD

Tommaso Biancalani is Senior Vice President of Generative Biology at Lila Sciences, where he focuses on building frontier AI models to streamline biological discovery.

Prior to LILA, Tommaso led AI for biology at Genentech, where his department spearheaded the development and application of machine learning to various stages of the drug discovery pipeline, including target identification, hit finding, and lead optimization. Earlier in his career, Tommaso was a group leader at the Broad Institute, focusing on deep learning for genomics.

Tommaso holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and completed postdoctoral fellowships at MIT and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.