RxPlora is a cost-effective drug discovery software for emerging biotech companies and smaller academic labs founded by professors and EdTech innovators from the University of Michigan with over 30 years of combined pharma and informatics experience. Currently there are many tools with similar functionality to RxPlora. However, our competitors have primarily focused on building premium products for large pharmaceuticals or very well funded academic labs – ignoring a large segment of the market that fosters innovation. RxPlora is positioned as an affordable solution unlike its competitors that come with tons of features that small to medium labs do not need and a price that they cannot afford.
Renju Jacob
CEO & Founder
Renju Jacob is the creator and founder of RxPlora. Renju has a thorough understanding of web-based databases and the HTS workflow processes. This has come from over 20 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing research information systems for high-throughput screening (HTS) campaigns and data analysis at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute. Renju has provided HTS Software-as-a-Service to various screening facilities across the globe.
Maxine Santoro
COO & Co-Founder
Maxine Santoro is co-founder and COO of RxPlora. Maxine is an energetic and enthusiastic user of technology and loves to develop new tools. After a 15-year career at Pfizer Maxine joined the Biotechnology field working in the area of Sales, Application Science and Business Development. During this time Maxine developed over 100 ways to use new technology with well-known scientists. Maxine earned her Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois and then went on to do a Post Doc at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Moses Lee
Business Advisor
Moses Lee is an Ann Arbor Spark Entrepreneur-in Residence (EIR) advisor, reviewer and is an expert startup and funding mentor. He has successfully built and sold software startups throughout his career.