Shobi A.

About Shobi A.

Shobi Ahmed, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and historian-anthropologist working at the intersection of precision medicine, artificial intelligence, and neurotechnology. Shobi is the founder and CEO of Sama Therapeutics, which seeks to transform outcomes in both routine care and clinical trials for complex patients — synthesizing more objective, generative AI-powered biomarkers to eliminate trial-and-error — beginning with neuropsychiatry. In the last three years, Sama\'s team has been leveraging a massively multimodal approach and cross-disciplinary skillset across systems biology and machine learning to push the boundaries of biomedical innovation.Previously, Shobi led pre/clinical development pipelines, trained in pediatric critical care, and triangulated multiomics+natural language processing for drug discovery with pharmaceutical R&D partners. He studied immuno-oncology, medical anthropology, and ancient blasphemy/heresy law as an MD/PhD student at Yale and Harvard, and holds BS/BA degrees in biomedical engineering and history of science/philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.

Experience

1. Founder & Chief Executive Officer

   Sama Therapeutics

   Jan 2022 — Present

Education

• The Johns Hopkins University

  BS, BA, Biomedical Engineering / History of Science, Medicine & Philosophy

• Yale School of Medicine

  MD

  2008

• Harvard University

  MA, PhD, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations / History of Science, Medical Anthropology / Bioethics

  2008 — 2016