Patrick

Ovando Roche

I’m Pat, founder of ScriptBio AI. We use AI to find the genes that actually cause age-related disease, then engineer stem cells to deliver the fix. First target: knee osteoarthritis, a $50B market with zero approved treatments that repair cartilage. I started this company because my mother has Alzheimer’s and my father had Parkinson’s. If our platform can identify the causal drivers of one age-related disease, the same approach can be applied to others. Based at LabCentral AI BioHub in Cambridge.

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Stem cell engineering
Cell therapy development
Biotech company building
Cell culture in bioreactors

Professional Background

16 years in cell therapy R&D across CRISPR Therapeutics, Sana Biotechnology, Astellas Pharma, and Harvard. PhD in stem cell biology (Imperial College London). MIT Sloan Fellows MBA 2026. Two US patents in cell therapy. Now building ScriptBio AI.

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