Michael Blum

Building an oncology diagnostics startup

Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

About

🩸 I’m building a blood-based cancer screening and MRD platform combining whole-genome methylation sequencing and AI-driven methylome analysis, with the ambition to make cancer detection earlier, simpler, and scalable. 📊 I’m a long-time researcher in biomedical data science, working at the intersection of oncology, genomics, and AI, and I’m now translating this expertise into real-world clinical impact through entrepreneurship. 🤝 Always happy to connect with clinicians, researchers, biotech innovators, and investors shaping the future of cancer diagnostics.

Experience

  • Co-founder and CSO at Aíma
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    CSO at Aíma, leading the scientific and technical development of Aíma's circulating tumoral DNA detection platform.

  • Scientific consulting at Self-employed
    Aug 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

    - Scientific and technical advisory - Management of scientific and clinical projects - Technology scouting and competitive intelligence - Data analysis, visualization, and reporting - Drafting of scientific and technical documents (e.g. white papers, peer-reviewed articles)

  • Senior Researcher at CNRS
    Sep 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Lead research projects - Polygenic risk score evaluation - Machine learning methods to detect cancer with non-invasive techniques

  • Director of AI and genomics research at SeqOne Genomics
    Sep 2022 - Aug 2024 · 2 yrs

    - Lead the research strategy - Lead and design the clinical study to evaluate an oncology biomarker - Manage the scientific team - Lead patent and publication strategy - Interact with key stakeholders (pharma, principal investigators) for clinical projects - Provide scientific materials for marketing purposes (white papers, use cases,...)

  • Owkin (Permanent · 2 yrs 11 mos)
    • Director of clinical trial solutions R&D
      May 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

      - Lead a team that proposes solutions to optimize clinical trials with AI and Real World Data. - Structure the product to provide real world evidence to pharma for their clinical trials. - Interact with regulatory bodies, drug development experts and medical researchers to make optimal use of Real World Data.

    • Lead Data Scientist
      Jan 2021 - Apr 2021 · 4 mos

    • Senior Data Scientist
      Oct 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

      - Manage and execute data science projects for pharmaceutical companies and research medical centers. Projects concerned subgroup analysis based on clinical trial data, adaptive clinical trials, and deep learning analysis with imaging data.