About RxPlora

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 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 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.

Noah B. Beckage is a Computational Chemist at RxPlora, where he develops AI models, cheminformatics pipelines, and research services aimed at accelerating drug discovery. He earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of Vermont in 2023, where his undergraduate research on graph network algorithms in chemical space sparked his passion for computational approaches to molecular science. Following graduation, Noah worked as a Research Software Developer at UVM’s Water Resources Institute, building enterprise-scale software pipelines and data applications before bringing his technical expertise to RxPlora in 2026.

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.