Aishani Aatresh

Biological Systems Engineer

Aishani Aatresh joined Distributed Bio in June of 2018 as a Computational Immunoengineer. She primarily developed Archetype, an AI-driven computational pipeline for antibody optimization while collaborating on various computational initiatives to accelerate Distributed Bio’s therapeutic discovery projects and capabilities. Her computational research continues at Centivax, where she is also driving strategic partnerships and communications and overarchingly handling the flow of information within and beyond the company .

Aishani is a strong proponent for interdisciplinary scientific applications, advocacy, communication, and policy and has spoken and moderated numerous sessions at the annual SynBioBeta conference on behalf of Distributed Bio, She attributes her interest in immunology to her lifelong severe food allergies, a topic on which she has given a TEDx talk, Cracking the Allergy Nutshell, in 2017 (after which she founded TEDxSaintFrancis), conducted numerous science fair projects, and lobbied legislators on Capitol Hill regarding HR 2117 and HR 2468 with FARE. She is a freelance science journalist for SynBioBeta, having interviewed 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Professor Frances Arnold and ghostwritten multiple articles featured online in Forbes.

Previously, Aishani has interned at Driver, a former consumer-technology company for cancer patients, as a member of their lab operations team, and she has conducted research on aortic repairs with tissue-engineered blood vessels and porcine and Dacron alternatives at Duke University. She is an alumna of Saint Francis High School and a proud Bay Area native, and she is attending Harvard College for her undergraduate studies where she is also an undergraduate researcher at the Michael Mina Lab.