Gather Bio
Working quietly.

We build the human data layer for drug development.

The bottleneck is data, not models. We own data collection at the source: the patient.

90% of drugs fail in human trials1
$100B+ spent on failed drugs, every year2
10k+ biomarkers read at every event, for every patient
Insight

Drugs are designed against data that misses the disease.

Machine learning is transforming how drugs are designed. Yet, nine out of ten drugs that enter human trials still fail. They are designed against aggregated patient data that captures static moments and largely misses the essential moments where human biology actually changes.

Hospitals collect data at random visits.

Lupus moves in flares. A flare is a discrete, datable event — and it is almost never the day of a scheduled appointment.

Disease activity
Flare onset Flare onset Annual visit Clinic visit Treatment switch Diagnostic blood draw Event draw Event draw
Annual Clinic Switch Event draw Event draw
Scheduled hospital visit Gather event draw at flare onset
Gather draws blood at the flare itself — the moment the disease actually changes.Hospitals only sample on scheduled visits — the flare is over before the next draw.

1 Sun et al., 2022  ·  2 Derived from ~$300B annual pharma R&D

We believe every drug will one day be tested in a virtual patient before it is tested in a person.

Those models will need data no hospital record or biobank holds today. We are gathering it.

01

Multiomics became a catalog service

Per-timepoint costs roughly halved since 2024.

02

Health records became portable

FHIR mandates let patients bring their own history.

03

Conversational AI got clinical-grade

Thousands of daily patient relationships at near-zero marginal cost.

04

New therapies need deep profiling

Advanced therapies demand longitudinal molecular profiling.

Product

Two cohorts, one engine.

We watch each patient closer than anyone — the engine funds itself.

Watch

Continuous clinical contact via Gather.

Know

Live eligibility for every patient, today.

Enroll

Sponsors pay for successfully enrolled patients.

Fund

Revenue funds the event draws.

Digital cohort

The screening population

EHR via FHIR, validated PROs, wearables, and an agent that initiates contact. No app to download — Gather reaches out first, morning and evening, over WhatsApp and SMS.

No app required Doctor-ready summaries
Blood cohort

Sampled at disease events

PRE / FLARE / POST. Mobile phlebotomy at home within 24–48 hours of a flare, then sequence or bank. Our ML decides which samples run next, so spend follows signal.

Draw within 24–48h Sequence or bank

The dataset every virtual patient will be built on.

Pre On Post
Clinical Complete health records

EHR via FHIR: diagnoses, labs, medications — pulled once and kept current, so no patient fills out a form or guesses at their own lab values.

Lifestyle Daily patient-reported outcomes

Symptoms, wearables and diet, collected in plain words over text and voice — essential during flares, when typing hurts.

Molecular Single-cell RNA-seq · Olink Explore HT · WGS

10k+ biomarkers read at every event, for every patient. Every event draw is banked on collection; our ML decides which samples are sequenced next.

Select a layer for detail.

Sampled at every event — PRE (baseline), ON (the event), POST (resolution). The same patient before, during and after each event: a disease-state transition no other platform captures.

The record compounds with every month of watching. Patients share in it: the longer they stay, the more they earn.

One patient, every layer, every event: a dataset that has never existed.

Proof

Trials cannot find patients.

Immunology recruits at the highest cost in medicine, from information that is weeks to months stale.

Enrollment 31%

of trials reach planned enrollment3

Schedule 80%

of trials run behind schedule3

Site yield 0.13

lupus patients enrolled per site per month4

Cost $250–500K

what a lupus trial spends per patient, all-in

3 Enrollment-barriers review, 2020 — 31% is a shortfall, not a success rate  ·  4 Md Yusof et al., BILAG-BR, Rheumatology 2021

Proof

The data landscape has an empty corner.

Patient apps and registries

Folia · PatientsLikeMe

EHR and RWD platforms

Flatiron · Tempus · TriNetX

Trial data platforms

Medidata · Veeva

Biobanks and academic centers

Mayo · Vanderbilt BioVU · UK Biobank

Virtual patient ML

Owkin · Noetik · Unlearn

Gather Bio Event-resolved, full multiomics
Event-resolved ↑ Static snapshots Records only Full multiomics →
Patient apps

Folia · PatientsLikeMe

Gather Bio

Event-resolved, full multiomics

Trial data platforms

Medidata · Veeva

Biobanks · EHR · virtual patient ML

Mayo · Tempus · Owkin · Noetik

Records onlyFull multiomics →

Biobanks go deep but sample once or twice per patient. Apps watch continuously but never draw blood.

Even the virtual-patient leaders sit mid-map: world-class models trained on mediocre data.

They need data only we can collect.

“The lowest-sparsity longitudinal multiomics dataset in medicine. Nothing comparable exists.”

Principal AI/ML Scientist, Recursion

A live platform in one summer.

Live in patients today: 100+ patients waitlisted, 5+ pharma waitlisted, first paid pilots Q4 2026.

Today
Live in patients

Repository protocol and consent model in place. 1M+ patient reach, 10+ collaborations.

Q4 2026
1,000 patients

First paid pilots, and the first event-resolved cohort at molecular depth.

H1 2027
10,000 patients

Dataset at licensing scale. The first licensing conversation opens.

Team

We've built every piece of this before.

Zhanel Nugmanova

Zhanel Nugmanova

Founder and CEO

Co-founded Valinor ($13M raised).Harvard Medical School.

Dan Voicu

Dan Voicu

Head of Product

Worked on product at Enveda.McGill, Bioengineering and Economics.

Advisors
Deepak Rao, MD PhDRheumatology at BWH / Harvard
Ehsen Tayyabi, PhDBD at Life Sciences at Tempus AI
Ian Hsu, PhDBlood genomics at Oxford
David Tsai, PhDClinical trial operations
Cheryl SaviniIRB compliance

Our team and advisors come from Lila, Tempus, Enveda, McGill, and Harvard Medical School.

Contact

Partnership and investment enquiries.

Tell us the indication and the protocol window you are trying to fill. We will tell you who qualifies today — and what the event-resolved record can show you.

HIPAA-aligned Opt-in, revocable consent The dataset is never for sale

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Thank you — we will be in touch.

Zhanel replies to partnering enquiries herself, usually within two working days.