TARA MADDALA, PH.D.

Pandora Bio

Tara is the founder and CEO of Pandora Bio, focused on precision early detection tools for student mental health. She is also principal and owner of TM Biostats LLC, a clinical development and statistics consulting firm and is an expert statistician at NDA Partners. Tara has held various positions in genomic diagnostics and pharma companies, including as Vice President of Clinical Development at Delfi Diagnostics, Vice President of Biostatistics and Clinical Data Science at GRAIL, Sr. Director of Clinical Biostatistics at Genomic Health (GHI) and Director of Biostatistics at Clinimetrics. She is co-inventor on several cancer genomic patents and has co-authored approximately 20 peer-reviewed publications and over 50 congress presentations. Tara is a partner at Silicon Valley Social Ventures (SV2) and regularly lectures for the UCSF-Berkeley Translational Medicine program. She holds a PhD in Biostatistics from The University of Texas and Engineering BS and MS degrees from The University of Florida and Georgia Tech.