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Gevorg Grigoryan

Gevorg Grigoryan is co-founder and chief technology officer of Generate:Biomedicines, whose platform generates new drugs on demand. He completed a PhD at MIT in 2007, joined Dartmouth in 2011 after a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, and won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2013. He co-founded Generate:Biomedicines with Noubar Afeyan and others. In 2023 he co-authored a Nature paper that introduced Chroma, a generative model for proteins. In 2026 the company completed an initial public offering that raised about $400 million.

Now at
Generate:Biomedicines and Dartmouth College
Works
81
Citations
3,657
h-index
29

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2007

    A doctorate at MIT

    He completes a PhD at MIT in 2007.

  2. 2011

    Joining the Dartmouth faculty

    He joins Dartmouth in 2011, after a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania with William DeGrado.

  3. 2013

    A Sloan Research Fellowship

    A Sloan Research Fellowship goes to him in 2013.

  4. 2017

    Tenure at Dartmouth

    In 2017 he receives tenure at Dartmouth.

  5. 2023

    The Chroma generative model

    The 2023 Nature paper introducing Chroma, a generative model for proteins, lists him as a co-author.

  6. 2026

    An initial public offering

    In 2026 Generate:Biomedicines completes its initial public offering, raising about $400 million.

  7. As of October 2026

    Chief technology officer at Generate

    He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Generate:Biomedicines, where he leads development of the Generate Platform, an integrated system for generating new drugs on demand. He co-founds the company with Noubar Afeyan and others.

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  1. Creating the crossroads | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology news.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Professor Grigoryan Wins Sloan Research Fellowship | Dartmouth home.dartmouth.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Leadership Team - Generate:Biomedicines investors.generatebiomedicines.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Illuminating protein space with a programmable generative model | Nature nature.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Speaker Details: EmTech AI 2026 event.technologyreview.com. Checked 15 October 2026.