Our Team

Michabo was founded by co-Directors Prof Mark Viant and Prof John Colbourne in 2018 to translate innovative basic science from academia into applied regulatory science — that broadens the types of molecular evidence deemed to be useful for chemical safety assessment and regulation.

Prof Mark Viant, CEO

Prof John Colbourne, Director

Simon Freeman, Legal Advisor

Sue Wilde-Greer, Commercial Advisor

Dr Thomas Lawson, Senior Scientist - Bioinformatics

Dr Elena Sostare, Senior Scientist - Computational Toxicology

Prof Bob Lee, Senior Consultant - Environmental Law

Dr Arthur de Carvalho e Silva, Consultant - Computational Toxicology

Dr Ralf Weber, Senior Consultant - Data Science

Dr Jiarui (Albert) Zhou, Senior Consultant - Machine Learning/AI

Dr Gavin Lloyd, Consultant - Biostatistics

Dr Xiaojing Li, Consultant - Computational Toxicology

Melanie Kaiser, Administrator

Prof James Kevin Chipman Senior, Consultant - Mechanistic Toxicology