Bharath Takulapalli

Bharath Takulapalli is the Founder and CEO of SPOC Biosciences, a deep-tech company pioneering on-chip drug discovery for the AI era. SPOC is a category-defining platform that combines high-throughput on-chip synthesis of protein or drug variant libraries, high-resolution analysis and multiplexed molecular profiling to enable biologics discovery at unprecedented scale and fidelity.Bharath envisions the SPOC platform driving a generational shift beyond 50+ years of microwell plate-based workflows toward a new paradigm of on-chip synthesis, discovery and development, serving both traditional drug development and AI-driven therapeutic design.His work sits at the intersection of systems biology, molecular biophysics, nanotechnology and engineering. He is the principal inventor behind SPOC’s core technology and has led the company from inception through the development of SPOC as a foundational life sciences platform focused on advancing therapeutic discovery. Bharath holds a PhD from Arizona State University and a BTech from IIT Madras.