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Sapient is a biomarker discovery lab providing expert services and actionable insights to better personalize disease prediction, diagnostics, and therapies.

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Our transformative pipeline of small molecule biomarker discovery services integrates next-generation mass spectrometry systems, biocomputational expertise, and expansive human chemical databases to rapidly identify and translate new biomarkers of health, disease, and drug response.
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Our Story

A History of Discovery

Sapient has more than 10 years of experience in advanced discovery. Today, as an end-to-end biomarker discovery CRO, we are helping sponsors and researchers accelerate drug discovery and transform therapy with biomarker-guided insights.
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2013

Jain Laboratory was founded at the University of California San Diego with a mission to innovate mass spectrometry (MS) to enable deeper probing of human biology at population scale. This multi-disciplinary, 25-person team of chemists, engineers, mathematicians, epidemiologists, and physicians developed the next-gen MS systems we use today.

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2017

Jain Lab was awarded over $30M in Federal, Foundation, and Industry funding to tackle biological questions across diverse disease areas including heart disease, cancer, lung disease, liver disease, Alzheimer’s, autoimmune disease, vaccine development, maternal fetal health, environmental studies, nutritional studies, and drug response studies.

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2021

Sapient was founded by the core Jain Lab members upon seeing the potential of its technologies to transform biomedicine. Now, Sapient is one of the largest capacity biomarker discovery labs in the world.

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2022

Sapient was awarded a $9.2M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support studies aimed at identifying biomarkers that can inform novel nutritional, disease-prevention, and disease-treatment interventions. This grant represented an extension of prior funding awarded to Sapient from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2020.

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2023

Sapient's high complexity CLIA laboratory received accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP), confirming adherence to stringent CLIA regulations. As a CLIA-certified, CAP-accredited lab, Sapient can support rapid translation of biomarker discoveries to regulated clinical applications, to further accelerate development and deployment of much-needed diagnostics and therapies.

Mission, Vision, Values

Simple principles.

As our company has evolved, our alignment with our founding values has never wavered. You can be confident that when you work with Sapient, you’re working with a team committed to:
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Tireless Curiosity

We have to keep asking questions – and finding new ways to answer them – in order to advance human discovery.
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Radical Transparency

We believe in taking full ownership of challenges and embrace the responsibility that comes with informing better drug development.
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Collaboration that Catalyzes

We join the talents of our team with yours to drive new innovation, overcome challenges, and spark greater discovery.
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A Culture of Quality

We adhere to the highest regulatory standards, have built a best-in-class team, and ensure quality in every action we take.

Meet the Team

Leadership

Mohit Jain, MD, PhD

Founder and CEO

Tao Long, PhD, MBA

Co-Founder and Head of Data Sciences

Sean Ramsey

Co-Founder and Head of Operations

Saumya Tiwari, PhD

Co-Founder and Head of Chemical Discovery

Jeramie Watrous, PhD

Co-Founder and Head of Analytical R&D

Tanya Nguyen, PhD

Head of Scientific Operations

Edmondo Porcu, MS, MBA

Head of Software and Data Engineering

Join Us

Interested in joining the Sapient team?

We are a team of passionate scientists, clinicians, and engineers, driven by a tireless curiosity to answer the unknowns about human biology.