

"Founded by Italian research scientist Jonathan Fior, Innovative Bioresearch Ltd. is a Web3 biotech company bringing disruptive innovation to pharma using blockchain technology to decentralize biomedical research"
About the company founder

Jonathan Fior
Owner and CEO
Jonathan Fior was born in Los Angeles, USA, in 1982, to Italian parents. Jonathan’s parents moved back to Italy when he was a child, and he completed his education in Italy, a country known for its excellence in the education department. He was always fascinated by medical and computer science and graduated with a bachelor's degree in medical biotechnology from the University of Milan, Italy. As well as maturating experience as software developer by developing his own apps. Upon graduation he immediately started working in the field of HIV research, with the goal of bringing innovation to the field. In this regard, he conceived the idea of using irradiated SupT1 cells as a decoy target for HIV-1 to prevent CD4+ T cell depletion as well as to render the virus less cytotoxic. Jonathan explored this approach in an in vitro setting in his 2012 publication, proposing SupT1 cell infusion as a possible cell-based HIV therapy. He then wanted to explore this novel therapeutic approach in an in vivo setting. He decided to start his own research company and founded Innovative Bioresearch in 2014. He later conducted a groundbreaking pilot study exploring SupT1 cell infusion therapy for HIV in humanized mice and was the first research scientist to believe in the potential of blockchain technology to disrupt pharma, issuing INNBC (InnovativeBioresearchCoin) in 2018 becoming what can be considered the og creator of decentralized science (DeSci). He is also the author of what can be considered the most comprehensive scientific paper on the Salamander regeneration process, how it compares with human healing, and how it can be a model for developing novel regenerative and anticancer therapies. Recently, he published the first official peer-reviewed decentralized science (DeSci) study, demonstrating the real world use of INNBC DApp for blockchain-based biomedical data storage and sharing, on Springer-Nature network, leading publisher of the world's most prestigious scientific journals.
HOW WE OPERATE
For biomedical research projects, Jonathan Fior works as PI (principal investigator), conceiving the experiments and writing the experiment protocol. The work is then assigned to a Contract Research Organization (CRO), which physically performs the experiments. Jonathan Fior then supervises all aspects related to the research, communicating closely with the CRO. Once the experiments are completed, he analyzes the results and writes a scientific paper, which is published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. This means that although our team is not large, we actually have companies with 100+ people working for us. For example, for our HIV study in humanized mice, we used a state-of-the-art CRO company such as AXENIS, a spin-off of the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), which has now been acquired by Genoway. This way, we can keep a small, yet strong and great, team. We only publish in open-access scientific journals because we believe in free information and don’t want our data to be hidden behind a paywall. For software projects, they are developed internally.