The grounds have shifted the foundations of academic core facilities and the current climate demands their strategic agility in order to thrive. Boyd Butler at Molecular Devices reveals how these labs can capitalise on this opportunity to increase value and efficiency. Academic core laboratories are at an interesting inflection point. Once considered subsidised institutional necessities

Narbe Mardirossian
Chief Technology Officer
Terray Therapeutics
Life Sciences/Biotech Executive
Narbe Mardirossian serves as the chief technology officer at Terray Therapeutics, where he has architected the AI infrastructure powering the company’s drug discovery engine. By uniting large-scale experimentation with advanced machine learning, he led the development of EMMI (Experimentation Meets Machine Intelligence), an AI-native platform that evaluates millions of molecules far faster than traditional methods.
Mardirossian’s leadership resulted in a 2025 discovery milestone with Bristol Myers Squibb and a multi-target research collaboration with Gilead Sciences. He oversees a diverse team of more than 50 scientists and specialists, integrating wet lab data with multimodal chemistry models to power internal and partnered pipelines. Previously a senior scientist at Amgen, he contributed to the development of the clinical-stage inhibitor AMG 193 and authored the widely cited quantum chemistry functional ωB97M-V. Mardirossian holds a doctorate in quantum chemistry from UC Berkeley and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech, bringing deep scientific expertise to the design of AI-native therapeutics.
