Zachary Gurard-Levin

Zachary Gurard-Levin, PhD is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Peapod Bio, a CRO offering innovative assay solutions for drug discovery and Founder and Managing Director of Tesserae Innovations, a consultancy dedicated to empowering innovators and entrepreneurs to communicate science with clarity and confidence. He brings over two decades of experience in technology development, high-throughput screening, and drug discovery and over ten years in business development, marketing, and sales in small and large CROs. Gurard-Levin has published over 30 peer-reviewed articled and served as PI on multiple small business innovation research grants. He was the Chief Scientific Officer at SAMDI Tech, helping grow the CRO from Innovation AveNEW in 2011 to acquisition in 2023. Gurard-Levin is a Board Member of Tango Biosciences (Chicago) and was a Member of the SLAS Board of Directors (2023-2026). He earned his PhD in chemistry from the University of Chicago and completed a postdoctoral fe