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Delineate

Agents for Accelerated Clinical Trial Design

Y CombinatorWinter 2025ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignSaaSBiotechAI

What they do

Problem

Clinical trial design and progression is slow and labor-intensive, delaying drug development and increasing costs for pharma companies.

Solution

AI agents that process existing clinical trial research into specialized datasets to accelerate and improve clinical trial design and phase advancement.

Who it's for

Large pharmaceutical companies and clinical trial teams designing and running drug trials.

Founders

Emily Nieves
Founder

Co-founder at Delineate. Previously she was an MIT PhD Candidate in Biological Engineering and worked at Pfizer and AstraZeneca where she focused on applying AI to modeling and simulation for drug development optimization.

Jawad Iqbal
Founder

Co-Founder and CTO of Delineate. Masters thesis in Robotics/AI with 2 research publications. Former technical project manager for high impact digital transformation projects within Skunkworks (Advanced Development) division at Lockheed Martin.

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