Dr. Njie is the founder of the AI company Genetic Intelligence (now Genetic Leap), which formed a partnership with Eli Lilly valued at $409M USD.

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Dr. Njie also founded Ecotone with the vision to build foundational AI from the ground up to read the human genome as a first language. This generates a platform to cure thousands of genetic diseases.

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Ecotone recently released dnaSORA, the world’s first DNA reading diffusion transformer. dnaSORA has precision to determine disease-causing genomic elements approximately 100x better than pharma’s best-in-class.

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Key background highlights:

- Nobel Prize-winning lab alum at Columbia University

- 2x National Science Foundation award recipient

- Novice kite surfer, avid gardener, audiophile

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