Early Marker

The people building the earliest possible warning.

Molecular biology, patient data, and machine learning under one roof — guided by a clinical and scientific advisory board in kidney cancer, nephrology, oncology, and cancer genomics.

The founding team.

  • Portrait of Muhammed Sadık Yıldız

    Muhammed Sadık Yıldız, PhD

    Co-Founder & CEO

    PhD in systems biology, Harvard. Built the discovery pipeline and the lead classifier; leads data infrastructure and CLIA assay translation.

  • Portrait of Erdal Toprak

    Erdal Toprak, PhD

    Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

    Professor at UT Southwestern. His lab developed the whole-blood RNA platform; directs the scientific program and assay development.

  • Portrait of Muhammed Ali Yıldırım

    Muhammed Ali Yıldırım, PhD

    Chief Strategy Officer

    Director of Academic Research at Harvard’s Growth Lab and Brown University’s Global Linkages Lab. Leads growth and long-horizon planning.

  • Portrait of Yaming Xue

    Yaming Xue, MD

    Scientific Advisor

    Blood-processing specialist at UT Southwestern. Two decades of experience processing human blood for sequencing-based assays.

Clinical and scientific counsel.

  • Portrait of Sarah Huen

    Sarah Huen, MD, PhD

    Physician-scientist in nephrology and kidney metabolism, UT Southwestern. Guides renal host-response biology and clinical study design.

  • Portrait of David Gerber

    David Gerber, MD

    Leads lung-cancer clinical trials at UT Southwestern; shaped modern trial-eligibility standards. Advises clinical validation, trial design, and the regulatory path.

  • Portrait of Mazhar Adli

    Mazhar Adli, PhD

    Tumor genomics and functional cancer genetics, Northwestern University. Advises biomarker mechanism and target validation.

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