Science. Technology. Company building.

Grant Belgard.

Computational biologist.
Biotech founder.

Founder & CEO of The Bioinformatics CRO. Co-Founder & CTO of CellCodex. I turn biological data into insight and build companies that put it to work.

Oxford DPhil · NIH training · Quantic Executive MBA

Better biology.
Built together.

My background spans neurogenomics, single-cell biology and biotech leadership. Today, I’m building two complementary companies: one helping researchers make sense of their data, the other generating causal evidence for more predictive biology.

Founder & CEO · 2018–present

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The Bioinformatics CRO

I founded The Bioinformatics CRO to connect researchers with outstanding computational biologists, wherever they are. Our distributed team supports biotechnology, pharmaceutical and academic research through genomics, multi-omics and bioinformatics.

Independent expertise. Global talent.

Co-Founder & CTO · 2025–present

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CellCodex

We combine human cell engineering, genetic perturbation and single-cell measurements to generate causal biological data. Our aim is to connect that evidence with predictive models and better decisions in drug discovery.

Human cells. Causal evidence. Predictive biology.

The Bioinformatics CRO was named to the Inc. 5000 in 2024. The idea behind it remains the same: excellent science should not be limited by geography.

Patterns in data.
Possibilities in biology.

Selected work spanning single-cell genomics, brain development, neurodegeneration, gene regulation and computational methods.

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Publication archive

2010–2026 · 36 entries

2026
Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life SciencesResearch article

Multi-Network Co-expression Analysis Enhances Biological Insights from Single-Cell Gene Expression

Authors, citation & related links

Alicia Gómez-Pascual, Araks Martirosyan, Katja Hebestreit, Andrew Kottick, Michelle Mighdoll, Victor Hanson-Smith, José Luis Mellina-Andreu, Alejandro Cisterna, Matthew G. Holt, Grant Belgard, Sebastian Guelfi, Juan A. Botía. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences (2026). Published 6 February 2026.

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Brain, Behavior and Evolution and Journal of Comparative NeurologyReview / commentary

NSF Workshop Report: Discovering General Principles of Nervous System Organization by Comparing Brain Maps Across Species

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"NSF Workshop Report: Discovering General Principles of Nervous System Organization by Comparing Brain Maps Across Species" Georg F Striedter, T Grant Belgard, Chun-Chun Chen, Fred P Davis, Barbara L Finlay, Onur Güntürkün, Melina E Hale, Julie A Harris, Erin E Hecht, Patrick R Hof, Hans A Hofmann, Linda Z Holland, Andrew N Iwaniuk, Erich D Jarvis, Harvey J. Karten, Paul S Katz, William B Kristan, Eduardo R Macagno, Partha P Mitra, Leonid L Moroz, Todd M Preuss, Clifton W Ragsdale, Chet C Sherwood, Charles F Stevens, Maik C Stüttgen, Tadaharu Tsumoto, Walter Wilczynski. Brain, Behavior and Evolution and Journal of Comparative Neurology (2014). (free PDF)

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This is a selected bibliography, not an exhaustive publication record. Expand an entry for full authorship, contribution notes and related links. The 2015 bioRxiv entry is identified separately as a preprint.

A scientific foundation.
An entrepreneurial outlook.

Experience before & alongside my current ventures

2021–2026

clock.bio

Co-Founder

2019–2025

bit.bio

Bioinformatics leadership, ultimately Vice President of Bioinformatics

2016–2018

Verge Genomics

Senior Genomics Scientist

2014–2016

University of Oxford

Research Scientist

2012–2014

UCLA

Postdoctoral Fellow · Neurobehavioral genetics

Education

University of Oxford

DPhil · Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Joint doctoral training with the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

Quantic School of Business
and Technology

Executive Master of Business Administration

Rice University

BA & BS · cum laude

Quadruple major: Physics; Chemistry; Chemical Physics; Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

Additional training, scientific service & open-source work

Further training

  • VC University · UC Berkeley Law Executive Education
  • Startup School · Y Combinator
  • National Cohort Scholar · Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program
  • Regulatory Affairs Essentials · UC San Diego Extension
  • On Deck Podcasters, ODP1; On Deck Longevity Biotech · Fellow
  • Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts · High School Diploma

Education & community

Trustee & Treasurer, Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts Foundation (2018–2024).

Open-source software

pysam · Python tools for working with genomic data.

Invited scientific reviewer

Science; Nature Neuroscience; Nature Genetics; Neuron; Molecular Psychiatry; Nature Communications; Trends in Neurosciences; European Journal of Neuroscience; PLOS Genetics; PLOS Biology; Journal of Comparative Neurology; Biological Psychiatry; BMC Biology; BMC Genomics; PLOS ONE; Tumor Biology; Cerebral Cortex; Molecular Brain; Genome Medicine; Molecular Systems Biology; Computers in Biology and Medicine; Research Square.

Selected recognition

Marshall ScholarNIH–Oxford ScholarRice Outstanding Senior AwardLSMSA Hall of Fame

04 / Conversations

The Bioinformatics
CRO Podcast

Hosted by Grant Belgard

Science is a human story.

The ideas are interesting.
So are the people.

I talk with scientists, founders and leaders about what they’re building, the paths that brought them there, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

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For research collaborations, company-building conversations or an interesting question at the intersection of biology and computation.