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Joan Saez-Pons

Director of UX Design @ Clarivate | Founder @ OpenPharma | Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction

I bridge design leadership and technical innovation in Life Sciences, combining 15+ years of UX expertise with deep work in AI-powered drug discovery, clinical research automation, and biomedical data infrastructure.

What I Build

Pharma Intelligence & AI Systems

  • OpenPharma - 50+ specialized MCP servers providing AI agents with pharmaceutical and biomedical data access
  • BioClaw - Containerized biomedical AI assistant bundling all OpenPharma servers
  • Cortellis CLI - Natural language interface to the entire Cortellis intelligence platform

Machine Learning & Research Automation

UX Research Automation

Current Focus

AI x Life Sciences: Model Context Protocol servers for biomedical data, agentic workflows in drug discovery, clinical trial prediction ML models

Research Automation: Autonomous experimentation patterns, natural language interfaces to pharma data, UX research synthesis via AI

Design Leadership: Scaling design systems in legacy environments, research-first product development, unifying Life Sciences product lines

Tech Stack

Languages: Python, JavaScript/Node.js

AI/ML: Claude AI, Scikit-learn, Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Pharma/Bio: Cortellis, FDA/EMA APIs, NCBI, UniProt, PubMed

Design: Figma API, Design Systems, Nielsen Norman Group methodology

Data: Clinical trials data, genomics, protein structures, regulatory databases

Organizations

OpenPharma - Open-source Model Context Protocol servers for pharmaceutical intelligence. 50+ specialized data sources spanning:

  • Regulatory: FDA, EMA
  • Genomics & Variants: NCBI, ClinVar, dbSNP
  • Proteomics: UniProt, PDB, AlphaFold
  • Pathways & Ontology: Reactome, Gene Ontology
  • Cancer & Dependencies: DepMap, Cancer Dependency Map
  • Healthcare & Policy: WHO, clinical guidelines

Experience

Clarivate (2018–Present, 6+ years) Director, Principal, Senior UX Designer - Leading UX transformation for Life Sciences and Healthcare products

Previously: PatSnap, Retechnica (Product Lead), University of Hertfordshire (Research Fellow), Birkbeck (Postdoc in Organisational Psychology)

Background

Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction - Research-driven design approach

Industrial Engineering - Systems thinking and analytical problem-solving

Full-stack developer - Bridging design, ML, and engineering

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    Pharmaceutical intelligence CLI - self-building wiki knowledge base, 80+ Cortellis API commands, AI-powered analytical skills (landscape, pipeline, profiles), and a browser UI. Knowledge that compo…

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  3. bioclaw bioclaw Public

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