Samantha Dale Strasser, BS, Mphil, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Samantha Dale Stasser, PhD, leads Pepper Bio’s R&D efforts to develop the world’s first transomics drug discovery platform. At only 33 years old, Samantha has produced work in transomics and phosphoproteomics that has opened up a systematic, repeatable methodology to identify new treatments for complex diseases.

Samantha received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, an MPhil in Physics at Cambridge, a BS in Biomedical Engineering, and a BS in Applied Mathematics at Northwestern. A recipient of the prestigious Churchill Scholarship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Samantha pioneered omics analysis approaches in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Biological Engineering at MIT, mentored by Douglas Lauffenburger.