A small team, built around one organ.
Tarna brings together kidney biologists, computational scientists and drug developers. We work from the Pennovation Center in Philadelphia, alongside the academic groups and the clinicians who see these patients.
Dr. Susztak is the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases and Professor of Medicine and Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Her laboratory developed much of the published groundwork in kidney genomics, single-cell atlases of the human kidney and kidney-specific machine learning on which Tarna’s models are based. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.
Leadership
Physician-scientist; leads the company’s operations
Professor of Medicine and Genetics, University of Pennsylvania
Physician-scientist; kidney transcriptomics and target discovery
We are building a new way to discover kidney medicines.
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Pennovation Center Incubator
3401 Grays Ferry Avenue, Building 176
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Pennovation Center, 3401 Grays Ferry Avenue
Building 176, Philadelphia, PA 19146