Raya Zin Eddin

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Raya Zin Eddin works on partnerships for Avatrial, a United Kingdom company that describes itself as a therapeutic discovery architect and is rebuilding the early stages of cancer drug development around patient tissue. Avatrial was founded in partnership with healthcare providers in the United Kingdom and runs an end-to-end platform in four connected parts: agreements with hospitals that give it access to donated human tissue samples linked to clinical data; a multi-omic laboratory platform that turns those samples into detailed datasets describing health and disease; a data platform whose machine learning models are trained on those datasets to identify biomarkers and candidate therapeutic targets; and an experimental platform that tests and validates those targets in laboratory models before they reach the clinic. Her remit covers the hospital and institutional relationships on which the rest of that chain depends, as the company extends its sample network beyond the United Kingdom to hospitals in other countries and opens discussions with technology, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and clinical trial partners.