About Us

15 million Americans. Life-threatening anaphylaxis. Lethal, inaccurate tests.
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Let's get to work.

Allergezy aims to democratize and revolutionize food allergy diagnostics and therapeutics. We use the genome to improve the world around us.

Meet Our Team

Our team is united by our vision: a safe, cheap, and accurate diagnostic test. We have been fortunate to obtain several grants and collaborative partnerships, and are always looking to grow.

Ayush Alag

Founder and CEO

• Has dedicated four years of research to food allergies, a life-changing problem from which he personally suffered.
• Machine Learning Approach Yields Epigenetic Biomarkers of Food Allergy: A Novel 13-gene Signature to Diagnose Clinical Reactivity
• 2019 Regeneron Science and Talent Search Finalist
• USA Biology Olympiad Semifinalist
• SAT Perfect Scorer

Joseph Hernandez, M.D, Ph.D.

Clinical Partner

• Clinical Asst. Prof. Allergy and Immunology, Stanford University
• Practicing allergy clinician for 13+ years
• 20+ distinguished research publications​

Advisors

Hinco Gierman, Ph.D.

• VP of Life Sciences, Integra Connect
• PostDoc, Stanford University
• Expert in bioinformatics: many high-impact publications

Taranjit Samra, DRSc

• Expert in Regulatory Compliance and Quality Assurance
• Has worked at Verily (formerly Google Life Science), Grail, Illumina, and Varian Medical Systems
• Expert in guiding companies to build a diagnostic clinical test

Mahmoud Ghandi, Ph.D.

• Senior Group Leader, Cancer Models Atlas Genomics, Broad Institute, MIT
• ​Expert in high-throughput genomics integrated with large-scale small molecules, shRNA, and CRISPR screens