Episode 139 - Tess Bevers - CEO & Founder - Novogaia

In this episode of The Biohub Podcast, Amber sits down with Tess Bevers CEO and Founder of Novogaia, a company combining AI and mass spectrometry to discover new drug molecules from fungi.We explore why fungi remain one of the most underexplored sources of chemistry in nature, the historical bottlenecks in natural product drug discovery, and how new advances in AI are helping researchers prioritise which molecules could actually become viable drugs.Tess also shares how Novogaia is building its discovery platform, why focus matters in biotech, and what’s driving the company’s move from London to San Francisco.