About Rancho BioSciences
Rancho BioSciences is on a mission to save lives through data.
Rancho BioSciences vision is to be the leading data services company in the world,
leveraging domain knowledge and expertise to solve complex problems.
Rancho Team
Julie Bryant
Julie works in business development for Rancho BioSciences liaising with customers and supporting projects. Julie brings years of executive international management experience in the life sciences business: GeneGo (systems biology), Thomson Reuters (scientific content), OminiViz (text mining), Genometrix (gene expression and genotyping), and Biosym/Accelrys (molecular modeling software). She has also advised and helped fund start-ups such as: FreedomVoice, aPriori Beauty Company, Simulscribe and Bimini Pet Health. Julie has also been involved in M&A activity selling GeneGo to Thomson Reuters and more recently supporting the GoDaddy acquisition of FreedomVoice.
Julie earned her science degree in England, has edited a Pathway book and is listed on several nutritional patents. Julie is also on the advisory board for Rady Children’s Hospital, Collaborations Pharmaceuticals and the Brain Trust Committee (John Wayne Cancer Institute).
Tatiana Khasanova
Tatiana leads the international team of scientific data curators, bioinformaticians, and IT specialists. She has 12+ years of experience working with complex, patent-generating projects in science fields such as knowledge management, clinical curation and platform building (GeneGo/Thomson Reuters), as well as open source tools and platforms (tranSMART, Cytoscape, Connectivity map) as well as chemistry and therapeutic specific projects (BioFocus DPI).
Tatiana completed her Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry (Univ. of Nevada, Reno) and post-doc training in peptidomimetics, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Viktoria Andreeva
Viktoria leads a team of over 50 talented curators who engage in a wide range of Life Sciences projects including harmonizing internal and public datasets, conducting gap analyses, generating comprehensive target reports, curating scientific literature, constructing data models, aligning clinical and preclinical data with various industry standards like CDISC and OMOP, curating genetic variants, cataloging data, overseeing data management and governance, preparing AI/ML training datasets, and much more. With Rancho extensive background in data management, curation, and integration, the Curation department plays a pivotal role in pioneering state-of-the-art tools for the management of Life Science data.
Viktoria earned her Bachelor and Master degrees in chemistry from the Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology, followed by a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology. During her tenure as a visiting scholar in the laboratories of Dr. Maciag and later, Dr. Spicer at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Viktoria conducted research on cell cycle regulation by peptide growth factors and explored Twist1 role in craniofacial development using mouse models. Her research journey continued as a research associate in Dr. Yelick's lab, where she investigated craniofacial and bone development in zebrafish and mouse models identifying novel gene mutations linked to developmental abnormalities.
Dan Rozelle
Dan leads a dynamic team of bioinformatics and data scientists at Rancho whom tackle a wide range of biomedical analysis projects including: building custom analysis pipelines, glean mechanistic and strategic insight from clinical trial data, and facilitating big data processing in the cloud. His team functions by both integrating into existing in-house bioinformatics teams and working collaboratively to provide project-specific expertise. Dan brings with him a broad track record of academic and pharmaceutical industry success with over 12 years of biomedical research and project management experience in cancer biology, infectious disease and clinical data science.
Dan was awarded his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Davis for identifying a novel signalling network that recognizes aberrant chromosome divisions that could lead to the development of cancer. As a postdoctoral researcher in the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Lab (NEIDL) at Boston University, Dan made significant contributions towards the understanding of innate cellular defences against viral infection.
Laura Brovold
Laura is working in the Business Development group supporting Rancho customers by providing novel solutions that leverage the extensive knowledge of the Rancho team. Laura has 15+ years of experience in international business development, with a solid understanding of the Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine market. She has held management positions at GeneGo and Thomson Reuters, and has worked with disease-specific non-profit foundations such as the Michael J. Fox Foundation, CHDI, and the Children’s Tumor Foundation, as well as several institutes at the NIH.
Laura has a PhD in Computational Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics from the University of California, San Diego, and has published on the mechanism of action of a natural product cancer drug, as well as helped develop code for GAMESS to describe solvation cavities.
Andy Hope
Andy’s role is Business Development at Rancho Biosciences. He brings over 30 years’ experience in consultative selling of complex solutions and services to pharma and biotech companies. After gaining his PhD in Computational Chemistry from University College London he spent the first 10 years working at two of the pioneering companies in molecular modeling, Chemical Design and Biosym Technologies. He then spent 7 years at Aspen Technology before joining IBM Healthcare and Lifesciences in 2003. Early in 2009 he joined GeneGo which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2011. He spent a further 5 years at TR where he led the Discovery and Translational Sciences business development team for N. America and Europe. After brief stints at Bioreference Labs/GeneDx and Cyclica he joined Rancho Biosciences in January 2019.
Rancho Team
Julie Bryant
Julie works in business development for Rancho BioSciences liaising with customers and supporting projects. Julie brings years of executive international management experience in the life sciences business: GeneGo (systems biology), Thomson Reuters (scientific content), OminiViz (text mining), Genometrix (gene expression and genotyping), and Biosym/Accelrys (molecular modeling software). She has also advised and helped fund start-ups such as: FreedomVoice, aPriori Beauty Company, Simulscribe and Bimini Pet Health. Julie has also been involved in M&A activity selling GeneGo to Thomson Reuters and more recently supporting the GoDaddy acquisition of FreedomVoice.
Julie earned her science degree in England, has edited a Pathway book and is listed on several nutritional patents. Julie is also on the advisory board for Rady Children’s Hospital, Collaborations Pharmaceuticals and the Brain Trust Committee (John Wayne Cancer Institute).
Tatiana Khasanova
Tatiana leads the international team of scientific data curators, bioinformaticians, and IT specialists. She has 12+ years of experience working with complex, patent-generating projects in science fields such as knowledge management, clinical curation and platform building (GeneGo/Thomson Reuters), as well as open source tools and platforms (tranSMART, Cytoscape, Connectivity map) as well as chemistry and therapeutic specific projects (BioFocus DPI).
Tatiana completed her Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry (Univ. of Nevada, Reno) and post-doc training in peptidomimetics, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Viktoria Andreeva
Viktoria leads many projects at Rancho as an experienced curator and specializes in Omicsoft and NextBio pipelines as well as assay workflows. Viktoria has expertise in Developmental, Molecular, and Cellular Biology. She was a visiting scholar in the laboratories of Dr. Maciag, and later, Dr. Spicer at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute. Viktoria’s work includes cell cycle regulation after cell stimulation with peptide growth factors, Twist1 function during craniofacial development in mouse models, and Zebrafish mutations.
She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry (Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology), and her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology (Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology.
Dan Rozelle
Dan leads a dynamic team of bioinformatics and data scientists at Rancho whom tackle a wide range of biomedical analysis projects including: building custom analysis pipelines, glean mechanistic and strategic insight from clinical trial data, and facilitating big data processing in the cloud. His team functions by both integrating into existing in-house bioinformatics teams and working collaboratively to provide project-specific expertise. Dan brings with him a broad track record of academic and pharmaceutical industry success with over 12 years of biomedical research and project management experience in cancer biology, infectious disease and clinical data science.
Dan was awarded his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Davis for identifying a novel signalling network that recognizes aberrant chromosome divisions that could lead to the development of cancer. As a postdoctoral researcher in the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Lab (NEIDL) at Boston University, Dan made significant contributions towards the understanding of innate cellular defences against viral infection.
Laura Brovold
Laura is working in the Business Development group supporting Rancho customers by providing novel solutions that leverage the extensive knowledge of the Rancho team. Laura has 15+ years of experience in international business development, with a solid understanding of the Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine market. She has held management positions at GeneGo and Thomson Reuters, and has worked with disease-specific non-profit foundations such as the Michael J. Fox Foundation, CHDI, and the Children’s Tumor Foundation, as well as several institutes at the NIH.
Laura has a PhD in Computational Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics from the University of California, San Diego, and has published on the mechanism of action of a natural product cancer drug, as well as helped develop code for GAMESS to describe solvation cavities.
Andy Hope
Andy’s role is Business Development at Rancho Biosciences. He brings over 30 years’ experience in consultative selling of complex solutions and services to pharma and biotech companies. After gaining his PhD in Computational Chemistry from University College London he spent the first 10 years working at two of the pioneering companies in molecular modeling, Chemical Design and Biosym Technologies. He then spent 7 years at Aspen Technology before joining IBM Healthcare and Lifesciences in 2003. Early in 2009 he joined GeneGo which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2011. He spent a further 5 years at TR where he led the Discovery and Translational Sciences business development team for N. America and Europe. After brief stints at Bioreference Labs/GeneDx and Cyclica he joined Rancho Biosciences in January 2019.
Rancho BioSciences is The Data Science Services Company
We are here to serve you and provide solutions to complicated problems.
We have a team of experienced Ph.D. and M.D. scientists around the world that deliver high-quality work on time and on budget. Our goal is to support the life science community by curating and organizing all kinds of life science data for analysis and providing knowledge-mining services to be leveraged by our clients to further their research to answer important questions. We are all passionate about our work and the impact it will have on patients and their families.
Project-Based
Rancho Solution Model
Rancho assembles a team of experts with relevant skills to solve basic to complex projects.
Testimonials
”This work will have a great impact!” – Top 15 Pharma
“This form will only exist because Rancho hasn’t quit! (based on the fact 3 other vendors quit once they got into the data)” – Top 15 Pharma
“The team has done a great job with very in-depth analysis, almost too in-depth!” – Top 15 Pharma
“Tremendous excitement from the team that is reviewing the work done.” – Top 10 Pharma
“I was skeptical about how effective it would be to outsource bioinformatics projects to a contract resource. My experience over the last two years has shown me that I need not have worried. The RanchoBiosciences team had impact with essentially a zero-learning curve. They show sophisticated understanding of the projects where we needed help and were able to grasp the context and goals of projects almost more fully than many team members. The RanchoBiosciences team is also highly skilled in project management; communication is clear, constant and well documented; and project progress is tracked and reported in ways all members can access status information with no difficulty. Our relationship with RanchoBiosciences has proven to be a great asset that offers instant scalability as programs as resource needs evolve. We intend to continue our partnership for the foreseeable future.” VP Research, Top 10 Pharma
“Rancho BioSciences takes care of data quality, normalization, and curation as well as bioinformatics analysis and knowledge mining for multiple teams at CHDI. Colleagues often approach me to engage Rancho’s services now; they’ve become an integral part of how we work.”
“It's been a great collaboration so far, we really appreciate the work Monica's put in!” - Data Operations, Tech company
“I just want to say thanks for the awesome efficiency! This was my first time working with Rancho and I was very impressed with how fast it was completed!” - Biomedical Data Manager, Biotech
“I want to congratulate you on an exceptional, thoughtful proposal”
“This is fantastic news. Thanks to you and the team for the speedy and diligent work.”
“All your feedback has been very helpful!”
“Our team are very happy with the output from the Rancho team.”
“We have been in discussions with another data curation company for a while, however it’s not been as simple as we would have liked, hence why we contacted you. I think your approach suits us very well - we already know how to work with data and have curated a lot of data ourselves, so we don’t need or want to buy an entire platform, instead we are interested in identifying and obtaining the most valuable/differentiating data we can and putting it to work as quickly as possible. The discussion was very refreshing as you all seemed to get that - in only one meeting we were able to figure everything out and get to point where a quote could be sent. So, thanks again.”
“Rancho has set the bar in terms of responsiveness and thoroughness in deliverables and have delivered within the timelines requested. Other candidate CROs have fallen well short of this. Therefore, Rancho has secured a spot as our preferred CRO for single cell curation needs!”
“I have total peace of mind in working with Rancho … “set it and forget it”.”
“Thanks for sending this note and thank you for making this process very easy for the last two years. Also thank you for all the support you provided the team to QC the data. Hopefully I’ll work with you on another project!”
“Thanks for this and it’s been an outstanding project. Your team’s contribution to the development of this platform has been incredible and helped enormously. You’ll be our first call if we need more help!”
“Rancho has met and even beat our fast pace and expectations throughout this project! The project was a success due to the hard work, continuous productivity, and collaboration that Rancho provided, and we intend on continuing the project with Rancho next year.”
“I know we have had a good experience with Rancho earlier this year so really appreciate your service!”
“Thank you so much for the final deliverables! Thanks so much for the wonderful job! It was very nice working with you. As said in the last meeting, this is beyond legacy data curation. Through this project the team also gained lots of insights for standardizing current/future data, as well as improving data creation and dataflow processes.”
“What I think makes the relationship work, is the knowledge and quality of the informatics and project managements skills of the Rancho staff, their customer focus, willingness to ask good/tough questions in the spirit of making the project a success, delivery on timelines and flexibility under pressure. Communication is also critical – agreeing to an action plan, delivering the agreed analysis on time while adjusting to emerging data along the way are oh so rare these days and this MO is the base practice at Rancho.” VP Translational Medicine, Leading Bio Tech Company
“Rancho BioSciences helped us to successfully complete a large, very important project. They quickly captured our needs and built a tool to process large amounts of data quickly which we could never have processed on our own.” Data Scientist, Top 10 Pharma
"I also wanted to say that working with the entire Rancho team has been fantastic! I hope that we will find many projects to work on together in the future." - Bioinformatician, Top 10 Pharma
“The work that you’ve done is amazing and makes me think that it saved about a year worth of work from our time” - Principal Scientist, UKBiobank curation and harmonization project, Top 5 Pharma
“We’ve tried to work with this data before, and we can now see a big difference. Amazing.” - Global Head, UKBiobank curation and harmonization project, Top 15 Pharma
"I also wanted to say that working with the entire Rancho team has been fantastic! I hope that we will find many projects to work on together in the future." - Data Manager, Top 20 Biotech
“If it involves data, it’s Rancho”
"Your work is helping us move the metrics needle and improve the quality & reliability of its machine annotations. We appreciate it very much!"
“The Rancho team plays an important role in the success of our project.
Looking forward to continuing working with your team.”
“Project has been great so far, really impressed with the curating that Bing has performed. We’ve been able to prioritize 50 datasets to ingest and looking forward to the next phase.”
“The deliverables were great. Where you really stood out was in project execution. We felt confident throughout the project thanks to excellent communication around timelines and logistics. Update meetings were efficient with reliable follow-through. You promised what we needed and delivered.
In addition, your way of project management and delivery matches our values in being “execution focused”!”
"My stay here was relatively short, but long enough for me to learn from each one of you. I appreciate your endless support, collegiality, professionalism and your scientific rigor and collaborations that benefited both the team and I personally.”
“Yes, the project has gone really well, and the curation has a huge impact on the Ai.”
“The guys at Rancho make the process very easy”
“You did a nice job with normalization across lung cancer studies .”
“Amazing! This looks perfect!”
“This inventory is AMAZING! Thank you so much!”
“Rancho worked really hard, asked lots of questions of us and got us thinking, which is what we were hoping would happen. This has been a good interactive project and we’ve been very happy with it. Not every company we work with can do this (level of interactive brainstorming) in projects.”
“Thanks Rancho, indeed, the presentation went well. Especially given that we had to make a 90 degree turn to refocus the story in 3 days, it was all the more remarkable!"
“Rancho Employees are just awesome. The relationship is not just technical and scientific, but a people one. They are so easy to work with, so good at their jobs, and so into their jobs.”
“Thanks for delivering on the POC project and also being open to newer modifications!! The automatic integration and the data integrity flags that you have incorporated as part of your workflow will save us a lot of time and make it easier to catch any errors. Looking forward to working with y'all on upcoming projects.”
“We could not have got to where we are today if it was not for the help of Chris and Haikel. I can’t say enough good things about them and the impact they had on our programs. We will continue to work with Rancho and we hope to expand what we are doing now.” - VP, Top BioTech
"Your work will provide valuable insights to our team, and we truly appreciate the expertise and attention to detail you brought to the table." – Bioinformatics, Top 10 Pharma
