Category: Meet the Atuka team

“I’ve seen the suffering this disease causes,” says Anna. “Being part of a team that contributes something to the research toward a cure is a huge motivator for me.” 

After getting his start in Silicon Valley, Atuka’s CFO Alan Stratton has spent his career finding new pathways to innovation.

Coming from a family of engineers in Tehran, Sahar Tamadon wanted to find her own niche.

Atuka’s COO went from a budding orchestral double bassist to world leading researcher in Parkinson’s disease.

A deep love of lab work is a big part of what drives Atuka senior researcher Vidya Alexander, along with a fascination for the potential discoveries still hidden in the human brain.

Senior lab technician Gregory Lops credits much of his early interest in science to his mother, who worked as an elementary school science teacher.

As a rec league basketball player, Andrea-Kaye Datu is the closest thing Atuka has to a point guard both on and off the court.

For many of Atuka’s partners, scientist Tielli Magnus M.Sc. is their first point of contact when initiating a preclinical study.

At Atuka’s facility in Suzhou, operations manager Su Jin oversees a team that conducts both small and large scale non-human primate studies.