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title: Corellia About Us
description: Corellia was founded with the goal of developing first-in-class medicines at a pace and efficiency never achieved before.
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# About Us

Founded with the goal of developing first-in-class medicines for patients with the most unmet needs,   
at a pace and efficiency never achieved before.

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## Our Story

Armed with an ever-growing understanding of cancer biology, Corellia AI was launched out of Champions Oncology, Inc. in 2023, leveraging Champions’ deep cancer dataset, rich suite of research platforms, and state-of-the-art experimental capabilities established over the past 15 years. 

Corellia AI has built a unique research ecosystem and partnered with world-leading biopharma and technology companies to execute our vision of building transformative first-in-class therapeutics. 

## History of Corellia AI

![Corellia Timeline_Mike_2](https://corellia.ai/hubfs/Corellia%20Timeline_Mike_2.png "Corellia Timeline_Mike_2")

##### Corellia AI launched out of Champions Oncology, a technology-driven research organization formed in 2008, leveraging the unique platform consisting of a world-leading bank of PDX models, a multi-omic dataset, and extensive experimental capabilities.

## Meet The Team

Corellia AI empowers a global team of passionate scientists, drug developers, and innovators. We combine our collective human intelligence with powerful artificial intelligence to revolutionize the discovery of novel oncology therapeutics

### ![Ronnie2024](https://corellia.ai/hs-fs/hubfs/Ronnie2024.png?width=250&height=250&name=Ronnie2024.png)**Ronnie Morris, MD Executive Chairman**

Chief Executive Officer of Champions Oncology. One of the founders of MDVIP, the national leader in personalized healthcare. 

![Mike2024](https://corellia.ai/hs-fs/hubfs/Mike2024.png?width=250&height=250&name=Mike2024.png)

### **Michael Ritchie, PhD, MBA ****Chief Executive Officer**

Chief Commercial Officer of Champions Oncology and founder of the *Lumin Bioinformatics Platform *and *Corellia** AI.* Former research scientist at Pfizer GBT/Oncology.  PhD in Biochemistry from Temple University, MBA (finance focus) NYU Stern.

**![Kakajan2024](https://corellia.ai/hs-fs/hubfs/Kakajan2024.png?width=250&height=250&name=Kakajan2024.png)**

### **Kakajan Komurov, PhD ****Chief Scientific/Technology Officer**

Led target and drug discovery at Champions Oncology, co-founding *Corellia AI*.  Senior Director in Molecular Discovery at Pfizer Oncology leading a group of 20 scientists.