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Apheris powers the world’s leading federated life sciences data networks, addressing the critical challenge of accessing proprietary data locked in silos due to IP and privacy concerns.

The Apheris product is used by some of the largest global life sciences organizations to collaborate on sensitive, proprietary data across teams, borders, and organizations.

Our customers unlock the value of complementary data and collaboratively train machine learning models on their distributed datasets to improve accuracy and generalizability to meet the precision required for industrial settings.

Meet our exec team

Robin Röhm

Co-Founder & CEO

Robin studied medicine, philosophy and mathematics and was trained in global banking at UBS. In one of his previous start-ups, he lost multiple customers as data couldn’t be centralized due to regulatory constraints. He is driving the vision, strategy, and culture of Apheris.​

Michael Höh

Co-Founder & CTO

Michael has a PhD in physics and computer science. He was trained at BCG where he built digital solutions and AI applications for industrial clients. As CTO he leads our platform architecture and design, our engineering target picture, technical customer commitments and legal and contractual scoping.​

Ellie Dobosn

VP Product

Ellie is an outstanding technologist with an impressive background working on particle physics at CERN and in various engineering and leading data science roles. Most recently she led the Cloud Product at Graphcore. At Apheris she leads our product direction, ensuring the highest standards of security, privacy and usability.​​

Eero Jyske

VP Engineering

Eero is a world-class engineering leader. He previously built and scaled best-in-class engineering teams at AlphaSense and ICEYE. At Apheris, he leads our engineering strategy and execution, to build secure, high-performance federated data networks.

Tim Van den Bulcke

VP Life Sciences

Tim is a seasoned life sciences expert with extensive experience in ArtificiaI Intelligence applications. Prior to Apheris he led the Computational Biology research team at Galapagos. At Apheris he’s working closely with our customers and our product development team to ensure maximum value creation.

Events we're joining

March
17-21
NVIDIA GTC
San Jose

Our CEO, Robin Röhm, is invited to speak at NVIDIA’s GTC. He'll be speaking on Federated Data Collaboration in BioPharma – Leveraging NVIDIA FLARE and BioNeMo.

March
25
Pistoia Alliance 
- ML Commons
London

Chris Woodward, Product Manager, and Jan Stücke, Product Marketing, are joining the ML Commons events. Meet them there

March
26
Flower Summit 2025
London

Chris Woodward, Product Manager, and Jan Stücke, Product Marketing, are joining the Flower Summit in London. Meet them there

April
4
GA4GH Connect Boston
Boston

Apheris joined GA4GH as an organizational member, and our CEO, Robin Röhm,will represent our concept of Computational Governance with this international community dedicated to making genomic and health data usable, secure, and ethically governed.

April
3-4
Bio-IT World
Boston

* John Karanicolas, Head of Computational Drug Discovery, AbbVie * Mohammed AlQuraishi, Assistant Professor, Systems Biology, Columbia University * Robin Röhm, CEO and co-founder of Apheris How life sciences organizations can collaboratively train AI models across proprietary datasets—without moving data or compromising IP.

April
29-30
BioPharma Drug Discovery Nexus
Brussels

Our VP of Product, Ellie Dobson, will speak about safely connecting life sciences data for collaborative AI.

Mai
6
AWS Life Sciences Symposium
New York

Our CEO, Robin Röhm, will participate in a panel discussion with 1. Justin Scheer, VP of In-Silico Drug Discovery, J&J 2. John K, AbbVie Head of Computation Chemistry, AbbVie 3. Dr. Mohammed Al Quraishi, Assistent Professor, Columbia University

June
24
AI in Medicine - Industry Symposium
Bonn

ROCHE / APHERIS talk about INTONATE. Making distributed, proprietary Multiple-Sklerosis data securely accessible via federated computing and computational governance.

Our culture is based upon our core values

Impact

We are driven by impact and strive for the impossible

Collaboration

Through collaboration, we create a whole that is far greater than the sum of its parts

Responsibility

We are responsible together and commit to ownership

Humility

We have the humility and hunger to learn

We’re looking for diverse and talented people

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Backed by top investors

Ross Mason
Founder of Mulesoft - Angel investor
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Mirko Novakovic
Founder of Instana & Angel investor
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Patrick Pichette
Former CFO of Google & Angel investor
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Torsten Reil
Founder of Helsing & Angel investor
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Ian Hogarth
Chair UK Government's AI Foundation & angel investor
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