Mike Italia

About Me

I've spent decades making biomedical data useful to the people who need it most — researchers, clinicians, analysts, and decision-makers.

That started in discovery research. Bioinformatics at GSK, analyzing genomic data for drug discovery programs. At Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, I led a team in the Center for Biomedical Informatics building open-source tools for translational research. At Syapse, I led product and engineering as the company evolved from precision medicine into real-world evidence. At AWS, I built and led a product and engineering organization focused on healthcare and life sciences.

I loved every one of those jobs. But careers have a way of accumulating — one logical step after another until you look up and realize you're a long way from the work that drew you in. I didn't just miss being close to the problems. I missed being the one to solve them myself.

Then AI moved the horizon. Suddenly one person with the right domain knowledge could do things that used to take a team. I wanted the freedom to take that on. So I started Vettaris.

Now I work directly with healthcare and life science companies to build AI that makes their business run better. I handle the product strategy and the engineering — no handoffs, no ramp-up on the domain, because I've been in it my entire career.

I'm the person who can talk product-market fit with CEOs, mechanisms of action with researchers, care pathways with oncologists, and systems architecture with engineers. That range is what lets me move fast.