The team

Clinical depth, AI research, and the microscope in between.

A founding team spanning 35+ years of haematology, machine-learning research, and imaging and bioinformatics.

Vasiliki Vlacha, MD, PhD

Vasiliki Vlacha, MD, PhD

Founder & CEO · Clinical lead

35+ years in paediatric haematology-oncology (Brown University, USA / University of Patras). Author of practical guides to blood analysis and paediatric haematology.

Christos Maniatis, PhD

Christos Maniatis, PhD

Co-founder & CTO

Computational biology and machine learning (University of Edinburgh). Leads the model architecture and AI research behind the platform.

Daniel Tikhomirov, BSc

Daniel Tikhomirov, BSc

Co-founder & CSO

Microscopy, imaging and bioinformatics (University of Cambridge). Leads the data-annotation pipeline underpinning model training and validation.

Advisors

Pro bono advisors.

The following individuals have provided advice to the research on a pro bono basis only. They advised; they hold no executive or operational role in AIMALABS LTD.

RG

Robert Ghosh

Biomedical innovation / NHS — advised on the research.

RR

Rebecca Ruan

Financial strategy — advised pro bono.

AP

Angelos Perivolaropoulos

Software engineering — advised pro bono.

PP

Persefoni Perivolaropoulou

Product strategy — advised pro bono.

A true story

Meet Sofia. Tired, pale, always breathless. For seven years no one could explain why — the blood smear was never checked. Then one smear changed everything: her red cells were spherical and fragile, a classic sign of Hereditary Spherocytosis.

Today Sofia is thriving. Millions like her are still waiting. An answer that takes two minutes should never take seven years — that gap is why AIMALABS exists.

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