Out today on the cover of @ScienceMagazine: work led by @KeoluFox (UCSD) and Alexander Ioannidis (Stanford) with @VariantBio. Polynesians experienced founder effects 10x stronger than Finland’s, with big implications for drug discovery and clinical care: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Dr. Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer from Variant Bio presenting with our brilliant partner Dr. June Fabian from the University of the Witwatersrand on how we have together implemented the community-driven distribution of financial benefits for genomics research projects in South Africa.

Check out this upcoming webinar by our very own @OliviaG_PhD! Register here 👉 zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…

In honor of International Nurses Day -- celebrated on the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth -- the team @VariantBio owes a huge THANK YOU to nurses around the world (including in Tahiti, pictured here) who make our research studies possible. Cheers to nurses everywhere!

In honor of National Doctors' Day today, we would like to thank all the doctors we have worked with in partner communities around the world, as well as the doctors who are committed to helping patients with the new medicines we are developing @VariantBio.

Coverage in @geekwire's Tech Moves today (geekwire.com/2026/tech-moves…):

“We may have traveled in different boats, but we’re all on the same ship.” — Words of wisdom from @VariantBio’s collaborator Dr. Herawati Sudoyo at the Asia-Pacific Conference for Human Genetics in Yogyakarta, Indonesia last week, together with the amazing team from MRIN:

Honored that Variant Bio has been named to @NorrskenVC’s Impact/100 list of the 100 most promising impact startups worldwide. This recognition underscores the importance of ethically grounded innovation. Thank you to Norrsken for the honor, and for the spotlight in Times Square!

This year, @VariantBio was delighted to be a sponsor of SING Australia's 2025 Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics: singaustralia.org/opportunit…. Congratulations to all participants, and to the team at SING for making genomics accessible for Indigenous Australians.

We are proud to be among the sponsors of the 15th African Society for Human Genetics conference taking place in Uganda this week, and to see Olivia Gray from Variant Bio and @StephieBioanth from University of Antananarivo both presenting about our project together in Madagascar.

Hot off the printed press this morning — Variant Bio’s partnership with Novo Nordisk featured on the front page of the @nytimes:

More coverage of Variant Bio's exciting new partnership with Novo Nordisk in today's print edition of the @seattletimes:

Our advisor @KeoluFox sharing news of Variant Bio's ground-breaking partnership with Novo Nordisk during a keynote at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2025 in Hawaii this week

Congratulations to Olivia Gray from Variant Bio and all of our colleagues who received an abstract award @GeneticsSociety last week! #ASHG2024

Last week, Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer from @VariantBio gave a plenary talk at the BIO2024 Conference at the @UPTuks Future Africa campus in Pretoria, South Africa based on our recent Commentary in Cell. In case you missed it, read the full publication here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Just one month to go before our panel on October 15 with Public Policy Projects on Increasing Genetic Diversity in Drug Discovery. Check out the amazing lineup of speakers and register for the webinar here: live.publicpolicyprojects.co…

This week Jaye Moors presented on behalf of Variant Bio at the PRECISE-IHCC Conference in Singapore, where she had a great time meeting up with long-time collaborators from the Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology in Indonesia!