About & Bio
Juan C. Sanchez-Arias, MD, PhD is a Medical Doctor, neuroscientist, and Google-Certified Generative AI Leader working as a Data Scientist at BenchSci. He bridges medicine, computational biology, and AI-driven engineering to accelerate and elevate preclinical drug discovery.
Previously, he was a Health Research BC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Medical Sciences at the University of Victoria, where his research combined advanced microscopy, model organism genetics, and computational tools to study brain and cardiac development. His interests span GenAI evaluation and benchmarking, biomedical data science, bio-image analysis, and open science. In his spare time, Juan develops community-focused tools, including the Victoria Childcare Hub.
Experience
Architecting AI-driven data intelligence pipelines, hardening extraction systems, and delivering high-throughput API endpoints for preclinical biomedical acceleration.
Led multidisciplinary teams and technical strategy for Customer Therapeutics Data and experimental history extraction pipelines.
Developed biomedical data extraction workflows powering preclinical research acceleration.
Investigated neurodevelopmental and cardiac disease mechanisms using computational biology, advanced microscopy, and model organisms.
Clinical & Early Research
Completed clinical medical internship across internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and emergency care.
Investigated cellular mechanisms of brain function and neurodegenerative processes.
Community & Engineering Projects
Education
Ph.D. in Neuroscience
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada
Doctoral research in cellular and molecular neuroscience, synaptic plasticity, and advanced biological imaging.
Doctor in Medicine (MD)
Universidad del Valle, School of Medicine
Cali, Valle, Colombia
Medical training with clinical rotations across hospital medicine, emergency care, and biomedical research.