Team

Dr Peter Karuso

CEO, CSO and co-founder

PhD in Chemistry (Sydney)

Postdoc: Hawaii, Texas A&M, Humboldt Fellow TÜMunich

Expert in drug discovery, natural products chemistry and phage display

Co-founder and CSO: FLUOROtechnics (2004-2010)

Dr Fei Liu

CMO, CBDO and co-founder

PhD in Chemistry (Yale)

Postdoc: Harvard Med School


Expert in synthesis, medicinal chemistry, chemical proteomics and network pharmacology

Dr Adrian Keatinge-Clay

CTO, co-founder

PhD in Biophysics (UCSF)

Professor Molecular Biosciences UT Austin; BS (Stanford)

Expertise in modular polyketide synthases

Founder and CEO:
CoAla Biosciences (2014-2026)

Vesna Lukic
Dr Vesna Lukic

Head of Operations &
Deep Learning Engineer

PhD in Physics (Hamburg)

Computational biologist

Expertise in bioinformatics, neural networks, deep learning, ML and GenAI

Dr Muralidhar Tata

Chief Scientist


PhD in RNA Biology (Vienna)

cDNA libraries and protein expression

Expertise in molecular biology, library construction and protein expression

Mr Gerry Zhao

Business and Finance Advisor


BCom(Hon) LLB(Hon) (Melbourne)
ex Merrill Lynch/Bank of America

Expertise in financial services, capital management and M&A

VP Neuren Pharma, founder and CEO throze

Dr Ramesh Bista
PKS Engineer

PhD in Biochemistry (UT Austin)

Chemistry and Biochemistry


Expertise in multi-step (bio)synthesis




Ms Sergueia Blas Chumacero

Scientist

BSc in Molecular Biotechnology(Hon) (Chile)

Head of biopanning

Expertise in lytic phages, phage display and DNA sequencing

Mr Gerry Zhao

Business and Finance Advisor


BCom(Hon) LLB(Hon) (Melbourne)
ex Merrill Lynch/Bank of America

Expertise in financial services, capital management and M&A

VP Neuren Pharma, founder and CEO throze