Narges Baniasadi

Dr. Narges Baniasadi is founder and executive director of Emergence program at Stanford. She is also Adjunct Professor with the BioEngineering department where she teaches purposeful entrepreneurship in the areas related to Health Equity and Sustainability. Narges has led multiple initiatives and businesses in the intersection of Technology and Life Sciences for more than a decade. She founded Bina, a pioneering Bioinformatics company, out of a decade of research at Stanford and UC Berkeley. Bina developed high performance computing platforms and AI solutions for cancer research and genomics analysis. Later, upon acquisition of Bina by Roche, she led the clinical software development and AI research as VP of Informatics at Roche Sequencing until 2018.

Administrative Appointments

• Founder and Executive Director, Emergence (2020 - Present)
• Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
• Advisory Board, Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub at Stanford (2021 - Present)
• Leadership Council, Advisor on Digital Health Innovation, Advisor on Health Equity, Byers Center for Biodesign (2022 - Present)
• Global Health Faculty Fellow, Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) (2022 - Present)