Freedom to discover
We are developing a flexible, accessible platform to accelerate single-cell, functional analysis at scale. By consolidating multiple, complex assays into intuitive streamlined workflows we are addressing key limitations in existing methods to provide the freedom to innovate and discover across a broad range of disciplines, from basic and translational research to drug discovery.

Meet our team
Leadership team
Our leadership team builds on extensive experience across biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, cell biology, single cell, and genomics.
Our advisors


Alex Marson is Director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, and Professor of Medicine at UCSF. Dr. Marson attended college and medical school at Harvard. He received a master’s degree in Biological Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in Biology from MIT. Marson was a resident at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and completed clinical training in Infectious Diseases at UCSF. He started his lab as a UCSF Sandler Faculty Fellow in 2013. Dr. Marson is the scientific director for Human Health at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI). He is a member of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and was selected as one of the inaugural Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigators. He is also a co-founder of Spotlight Therapeutics and Arsenal Biosciences.
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Lightcast Discovery secures $49 million in Series B financing to commercialize its single-cell platform for functional analysis
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