About 

Advancing Platelet Proteomics for Precision Oncology

Hessian Labs is redefining cancer diagnostics by moving beyond the limits of tissue biopsies, imaging, and DNA mutation–driven models.

Our approach harnesses platelet proteomics—a non-invasive blood test that reveals real-time disease biology across the body. Platelets selectively sequester proteins from the tumor microenvironment, creating a dynamic and enriched signal of cancer progression, therapeutic response, and biological behavior.

Rather than measuring what cancer could become, we measure what it is doing now.

At the center of this innovation is ClariaIQ, our proprietary molecular informatics platform. ClariaIQ decodes the complex proteomic signatures carried by platelets and translates them into clinically actionable insights that support earlier detection, more precise risk stratification, treatment monitoring, and better clinical decision support.

This creates a level of biological resolution and clinical precision that traditional genomic and tissue-based approaches cannot provide.

OUR MISSIOn

To improve the patient journey through cancer and other serious diseases by delivering personalized, real-time diagnostics that help clinicians make better decisions…earlier and with greater confidence.

Detect earlier. Treat smarter. Improve lives.

Darrol Roberts, Co-founder &CEO

Darrol G. Roberts, Co-founder & CEO

Our vision is a world where living with cancer feels no different than living with any other chronic condition—where treatment is guided by precision diagnostics, decisions are made with confidence, and patients can live fully, without compromise.

Because patients deserve more than survival—they deserve life.”

-Dr. Giannoula Lakka, FRCP(C), Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer

Management Team

  • Darrol Roberts, MBA

    Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

  • Giannoula Lakka, MD, FRCP(C)

    Co-Founder, Chief Science Officer

  • Zalan Kemenczy, PHD

    Chief Technology Officer

Board of Directors

  • Darrol Roberts, MBA

    Co-Founder, CEO, Chair

  • Giannoula Lakka, MD, FRCP(C)

    Co-Founder, CSO, Director

  • Keith Greenfield

    Co-Founder, Director

  • Joseph Kelley

    Director

  • Michael Muldowney

    Director

Scientific Advisory Board

  • Abdo Abou-Slaybi, PhD

    Co-founder

  • Pooja Advani, MD

    Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

  • Teo Dagi, MD

    Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

  • Jennifer Van Eyk, PhD

    Cedar-Sinai Medical Center

  • Stephen Freedland, MD

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

  • Ted A. James, MD, MHCM

    Endeavor Health Medical Group, Harvard School of Public Health

  • Mary F. Lopez, PhD

    InformaDX

  • Thomas Polascik, MD

    Duke University School of Medicine

  • Sanoj Punnen, MD

    University of Miami School of Medicine

  • Mitchell Sokoloff, MD

    UMass Medical School

  • Rudy Tanzi, PhD

    Massachusetts General Hospital

  • PATRICIA A. D'AMORE, PHD,MBA

    Harvard Medical School