Meriem Sefta is Chief Diagnostics Officer at Owkin, an agentic AI company on a mission to explore complex biology to speed up and scale research for the creation of new treatments and diagnostics for patients. A graduate of École Polytechnique and MIT, Meriem completed her PhD in Cancer Biology at Institut Curie while teaching mathematics and statistical analysis at Paris-Sud University. She was a Research Project Manager before she became a consultant at AEC Partners. She joined Owkin as Head of Partnerships and now leads the organization’s diagnostics unit.