Building BioLayers at the intersection of AI & oncology

Co-Founder & Lead Architect

Azizbek Gayratov

Co-Founder of BioLayers AI · Tashkent

·Ibn Sina School Graduate

Read over 100 cancer manuscripts to engineer the tool he was missing — reconstructing fragmented biomedical literature into explorable, evidence-linked computational mind maps that empower oncologists to reason across disease layers.

Secondary Education

Ibn Sina School Graduate

Venture Leadership

BioLayers AI · Tashkent

Computational OncologyKnowledge GraphsBiomedical AIGraph Theory

LinkedIn ProfileLead Research & Engineering

Scientific Mentor

John-William Sidhom, M.D., Ph.D.

Physician-Scientist in Medical Oncology

Providing scientific mentorship to ground BioLayers AI in clinically meaningful oncology workflows, multi-omics genomics, and rigorous translational evidence.

Clinical Training

Weill Cornell / NYP

MD / PhD Training

Johns Hopkins

LinkedIn ProfilePrecision Oncology Mentorship

Thoracic Oncology & Allison Institute

Eric E. Gardner

Assistant Professor, Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology · MD Anderson

Principal Investigator at the James P. Allison Institute and MD Anderson Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology, investigating cancer plasticity, airway damage, and novel therapeutic targets in lung cancer.

Faculty Appointment

MD Anderson

Doctoral Training

Johns Hopkins

LinkedIn ProfileThoracic Oncology & Allison Institute

GI Oncology & CPRIT Scholar

John Paul Shen

Assistant Professor, Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology · MD Anderson

Physician-scientist leading the Shen Laboratory at MD Anderson, specializing in cancer genomics, CRISPR screening, synthetic lethal interactions, and machine learning biomarkers in colorectal and gastrointestinal cancers.

Faculty Appointment

MD Anderson

PhD & Fellowship

UC San Diego

LinkedIn ProfileGastrointestinal Precision Oncology

Clinical Genomics & Pediatric Oncology

Kathleen M. Schieffer

Assistant Professor · Nationwide Children's & Ohio State University

Clinical and translational genomicist at the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, investigating pediatric tumor genomics, transcriptomic complexity, and translating high-throughput sequencing into clinical precision oncology.

NCH / OSU

Faculty Appointment

Nationwide Children's / OSU

Doctoral Training

Penn State Medicine

LinkedIn ProfilePediatric Cancer Genomics

BGPh.D.

Bioinformatics & NGS Architecture

Bailey Glen

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist & Director · Hollings Cancer Center, MUSC

Bioinformatics scientist directing high-throughput next-generation sequencing informatics, multi-omics architecture, and reproducible computational pipelines supporting translational cancer genomics at Hollings Cancer Center.

MUSC

Faculty / Directorship

Hollings Cancer Center · MUSC

Doctoral Training

Clemson University

LinkedIn ProfileNGS Informatics & Multi-Omics

Institutional and academic names (Abu Ali Ibn Sina Specialized School, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, UC San Diego, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Penn State College of Medicine, Hollings Cancer Center / MUSC, Clemson University) are presented as biographical context for founders and mentors, and do not imply institutional endorsement of BioLayers AI.