Adair Borges
Ditto Bio Cofounder | Natural Protein Discovery
Experience
Career
2025Ditto Bio (YC W26)
Co-founderCofounder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2023Arcadia Science
Team Lead · Berkeley, California, United States · 2023 – 2025
2022Arcadia Science
Scientist I-II · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2020University of California, Berkeley
Miller Research Fellow · Berkeley, California, United States · 2020 – 2022
- 2020
Acrigen Biosciences
Scientific Consultant · 2020
2014University of California, San Francisco
Graduate Student Researcher · San Francisco, California, United States · 2014 – 2020
2012University of Pittsburgh
Undergraduate Student Researcher · Pittsburgh, PA · 2012 – 2014
Bio
Entrepreneurial scientist using evolution to build the next generation of therapeutics for autoimmune disease. UCSF-trained PhD with expertise spanning parasitology, virology, and genomics. Published over 50 scientific papers, and is a coinventor on a patent for anti-CRISPR proteins. Former Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley, and previously led a venture creation team at an early stage biotech company. Motivated by a lifelong fascination with parasites.