Engineer · Rigel Pharmaceuticals
Built an AI-powered system that auto-generates patient safety narratives from structured clinical data, cutting manual drafting time. Deployed using AWS for clinical team.
Python · OpenAI API · AWS · SQLite
healthcare × ai × strategy
Anya Sikri
Building AI for healthcare & life sciences.
Building the infrastructure health systems need to deploy generative AI safely. UC Berkeley Data Science & Bioengineering alum; previously at Rigel Pharmaceuticals, PwC, and Abbott.
SIKRI, ANYASTATUS: BUILDING
- GENAI SYSTEMSRigel · PwC
- CLINICAL RESEARCHIGI · UCSF
- BIOTECH STRATEGYAbbott · Ishara
UC BERKELEY ALUM · DATA SCIENCE + BIOENGINEERING
6
Industry & research roles
200+
Pharma patents mapped
60+
Health-tech startups evaluated
8
M&A targets assessed
Three ways into the same problem
what I doGenAI for Clinical Data
Product and engineering for AI on clinical data — patient safety narratives from structured data, LLM eval infrastructure, and governance that keeps genAI honest in regulated settings.
Rigel Pharmaceuticals · PwC
Bench-to-Data Biology
Cancer drug screening with patient-derived organoids, scRNA-seq pipelines, and ML models on real patient datasets — where the biology meets the data.
Innovative Genomics Institute · UCSF · Stanford
Biotech Strategy & Investing
Due diligence on pharma acquisitions, biotech equity research across drug cycles, and matching health-tech startups with the right investors.
Abbott · Ishara Investments · Health Engine
Experience
2023 — presentAug 2025 - Jul 2026
Analyst · Health Engine
UC Berkeley's healthcare startup accelerator. Building semantic search engine using vector embeddings and FAISS to match startups with investors, while evaluating 60+ cohort startups for product-market fit
Python · MongoDB · FAISS · SentenceTransformer
Engineering Intern · PwC
Deployed LLM eval infrastructure on SageMaker to benchmark model performance across accuracy, hallucination rate, latency, and more; pipeline processed 100+ test cases and informed model selection from Bedrock catalog.
AWS Bedrock · Sagemaker · Airflow · dbt
Ishara
Tech Research Analyst Intern · Ishara Investments
Analyzed 20+ public biotech equities, built investment dashboard and financial models to identify drug cycle inflection points, synthesizing FDA filings into actionable investment memos
Financial Modeling · SQL · Research
Data Science & Strategy Intern · Abbott
Led due diligence on 8 pharma acquisition targets, building valuation frameworks and presenting scorecards that synthesized clinical, financial, and competitive data
Python · SQL · Tableau · Financial Analysis
Data Science Intern · Stanford Clinical Research (SCCR)
Mapped competitive landscapes across 200+ pharmaceutical patents, identifying whitespace in therapeutic areas to inform AI-driven drug development strategy
Python · Data Analysis · Market Research
Projects
small builds & demosSREACT
SAE Narrative Generator
LIVESYNTHETIC DATA ONLY
Clinical-style UI for drafting serious adverse event narratives from structured case data — the interface pattern behind my Rigel work, rebuilt as a standalone demo on synthetic patient cases.
React · LLMs · Clinical Safety
RREACT
Regulatory Intelligence Dashboard
LIVESYNTHETIC PORTFOLIO
Regulatory intelligence for a biotech portfolio on one screen: submission states, a catalyst runway timeline, and program-level regulatory events. Built on an invented portfolio.
React · Regulatory Ops · Data Viz
DPYTHON
Drug Script Analysis Tool
LIVESYNTHETIC DATA
Prescription trend analyzer that compares Week-over-Week and Z-Score methods side-by-side, with drug-maturity-aware thresholds and holiday-adjusted baselines. Ships as a Streamlit web app, CLI, and Colab notebook with interactive Plotly dashboards.
Python · Streamlit · Plotly · Pandas
The Berkeley chapter
where I grewClubs & organizations
Phoenix ConsultingManager
Healthcare consulting for Bay Area health-tech companies and healthcare organizations
Health EngineAnalyst
UC Berkeley's healthcare startup accelerator, supporting 60+ health-tech startups
Data Science SocietyProject Lead
Organized workshops and led a team of 8 on ML competition projects
Research & academic
Innovative Genomics InstituteJuly 2025 - Present
Quantitative Biology Intern
Cancer drug screening research using patient-derived organoid models. Built data processing pipelines for fluorescence analysis, developed automated cell-sorting tools, and applied clustering/dimensionality reduction to identify treatment effects on cell behavior.
Python · FlowJo · scRNA-seq · Clustering
UCSF Singhal LaboratoryAug 2022 - Jan 2023
Data Science Research Intern
Analyzed 20 COVID-19 genetic datasets to identify disease variable correlations. Built ML model to forecast seizures in COVID-19 patients with 80% accuracy. Presented findings to neurologists and researchers.
Python · ML · KNN Imputation · Dimensionality Reduction
Let's talk.
Always open to interesting conversations and opportunities in healthcare, biotech, and AI.
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