Vladimir Gligorijevic, Ph.D.

Vladimir Gligorijevic is the senior director of AI-ML at Prescient Design, within Genentech R&D (gRED). He was originally trained as a physicist and earned a master’s degree in theoretical physics from the University of Belgrade. He then studied computer science and bioinformatics, with a focus on data integration via machine learning, with applications to protein and genome annotation, completing his Ph.D. at Imperial College London. Afterwards, he joined the Flatiron Institute, where he stayed for almost four years. While there, he worked on developing new machine learning methods for identifying active and binding sites on proteins, building methods with unprecedented scale and accuracy properties. Gligorijevic’s work on protein structure-function prediction was the motivation for new approaches to directly integrating protein function and protein properties into a deep-learning based approach to protein design. This work was the foundation for several approaches to macromolecular design. Gligorijevic co-founded Prescient Design and has co-led the integration of the company into the Roche family and Large Molecule Drug Discovery (LMDD) at gRED.