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Alif Saleh

Alif Saleh

Chief executive officer, 28bio

ExecutiveDirectorRoles at 2 startups
Updated Nov 6, 2026·Latest SEC filing Oct 29, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Alif Saleh

Alif Saleh is chief executive officer of 28bio. The company engineers human brains and produces predictive data for neurological drug development. He has raised more than half a billion dollars to develop and commercialize new life science and biotechnology technologies.

He was previously chief executive officer of Scipher Medicine Corporation and senior vice president of GC International Corporation. He also held product management and commercial positions with Alfa Laval in Europe and Asia. The Healthcare Technology Report named him one of its Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs in 2022. He holds an MSc in Chemical and Genetic Engineering from Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Alif Saleh in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

28bio, Inc. Current
Chief Executive Officer and director
2024 – Present · Metairie, LA
Brain organoids made from human cells show drug developers how a candidate may affect patients before it reaches the clinic.
Scipher Medicine Corp
CEO
Director
2016 – 2021 · Waltham, MA
GC International Corporation
Senior VP
Alfa Laval

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Alif Saleh works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

28bio, Inc. · Form D/A, Oct 29, 2026
David Weiner
David Weiner
Chief Scientific Officer and director
DP
Dale Pfost
Director
MK
Michael Katz
Director
MK
Miklos Kobor
Director
Paul Friel
Paul Friel
Director
Scipher Medicine Corp · Form D/A, Mar 31, 2021
MR
TS
Todd Sone
Director
JS
Jeffrey Sachs
Secretary
JL
SK
Samir Kaul
Director
MK
Miklos Kobor
Director

Sources

  1. SEC28bio, Inc. Form D/A, filed Oct 29, 2026
  2. SECScipher Medicine Corp Form D/A, filed Mar 31, 2021
  3. release28bio announces Nexon neurotechnology platform (PR Newswire, June 9, 2025)