07Team & company

Who's building this

The people first, then the corporate facts a partner or funder needs.

Team

Daehwan Kim, PhD

Founder / Advisor · CEO, Omphalos Korea

L++ lead architect. 79,000+ citations, including three first-author or corresponding papers each cited 14,000+ times; creator of the HISAT software series (HISAT alone: 24,500+ citations). Former Johns Hopkins postdoc and UT Southwestern assistant professor; PhD in Computer Science, University of Maryland.

Donghoon Lee, PhD

Co-Founder / CEO

15+ years in cell and systems biology, 5+ years programming, L++ co-developer. Leads product, partnerships, and operations. PhD in Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto; former postdoc at Johns Hopkins and UT Southwestern, then instructor at UT Southwestern.

Chang-Hyun Lee, PhD

Principal Scientist, Omphalos Korea

20 years in genetics, cell biology, and stem cell research (HHMI at Johns Hopkins and UT Southwestern). Builds and validates the mechanistic models themselves.

Sanghoon Kim

Chief Design Officer

Omphalos Lifesciences.

Minseo Kim

Software Engineer

Omphalos Lifesciences. Builds the Lifabrica ecosystem.

Corporate

Company facts

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Omphalos Lifesciences Inc.

Incorporated May 2021. U.S. operations in Dallas, TX. UEI J291TANNUPB7.
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Omphalos Korea Inc. · 주식회사 옴팔로스코리아

Korean R&D subsidiary, incorporated November 2025, led by Daehwan Kim (CEO / Director of Research Institute).
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IP posture

Models, datasets, and the L++ platform built under public programs are open source. Software, infrastructure, and compute tooling are Omphalos-owned and available for commercial licensing.