Founder
Combining AI research expertise with a drive to solve medical access inequality
Siddharth Shukla
Founder & Researcher
Background
ThePharmaBridge was founded by Siddharth Shukla, a student researcher focused on using AI to reduce medical inequality.
Growing up with a father who built a pharmaceutical company from limited resources, Siddharth saw both sides of medicine: the lifesaving potential of modern treatments and the brutal reality that access is not evenly distributed.
In 2025, Siddharth began working on AI-powered tools for secure code analysis and later extended that mindset to public health: how do we use data and models not just to "predict," but to route real people to real care?
ThePharmaBridge is the result of that question.
Expertise
AI & Machine Learning
- • LLM interpretability & safety
- • Secure code analysis systems
- • AI routing & decision support
Healthcare & Access
- • Family history in pharmaceuticals
- • Internship at Nivagen Pharmaceuticals
- • Exposure-based preventive medicine
Why Firefighters?
After learning about the elevated cancer burden among firefighters—and the difficulty of accessing preventive therapies and detox protocols—the problem became impossible to ignore. Here was a high-risk group with well-documented exposure patterns, established research on interventions like glutathione/NAC, and yet no structured way to connect individuals to care.
Path to ThePharmaBridge
AI Research & Safety
Conducted research on large-language-model interpretability and safety, submitted to top AI conferences
Pharmaceutical Industry
Internship at Nivagen Pharmaceuticals—gained firsthand insight into drug development and access challenges
ThePharmaBridge Founded
Launched platform combining AI routing with firefighter health equity, beginning with exposure intake research
Research & Development
Published firefighter exposure landscape reports and developing clinical routing algorithms
"We're building infrastructure where exposure data and AI guide people to the right care before disease progresses."
Starting with firefighters, expanding to EMTs, veterans, and eventually any community where access to preventive medicine is structurally limited.