Lisa Miklós-Illés

Portrait of Lisa Miklós-Illés

Biotech operator taking AI from prototype to P&L impact

Lisa Miklós-Illés is Associate Director of AI Strategy and Operations at BridgeBio, where she was the founding AI hire and owns the company-wide AI P&L. She previously led firmwide AI adoption at L.E.K. Consulting, advised biotech and pharma clients at Trinity Life Sciences and ClearView Healthcare Partners, and co-founded PHIXED Systems, an AI predictive analytics startup. She holds a B.Sc. in Biological Systems Engineering from UC Davis.

LinkedIn GitHub Resume (PDF)
$3.5M+direct P&L impact from AI, BridgeBio
1,500consultants trained in context management and efficient LLM use, L.E.K.
>50%of strategy consulting work automated, L.E.K.

AI across the drug development & commercialization life cycle

Illustrative, non-exhaustiveExamples of where Lisa has put AI to work, from the lab to the market.

Led Ran the program and answered for results Built Designed and built it hands-on Advised Shaped the strategy as a consultant to pharma and biotech
Discovery & R&D
AdvisedLandscape of AI applications in companion diagnosticsL.E.K. Consulting
Clinical development
BuiltQuality Assurance inspection readinessBridgeBio
AdvisedData Management LLM readiness assessmentBridgeBio
AdvisedmRNA, gene therapy, and auto/allo cell therapy pipeline demand analysisL.E.K. Consulting
Manufacturing & CMC
LedPredictive analytics for batch failure using sensor dataPHIXED Systems
BuiltLLM-assisted batch failure deviation analyzerBridgeBio
AdvisedAI/ML readiness for CHO-based mAb productionL.E.K. Consulting
Commercial & access
LedMarket access field-team AI pilotBridgeBio
AdvisedAI generation of digital marketing materials
BuiltAutomated revenue forecastingClearView
Across the enterpriseG&A, enablement and operations
BuiltAI-assisted insourcing opportunity identifierBridgeBio
LedCompany-wide AI portfolio and P&LBridgeBio
LedTraining 1,500 consultants in context management and efficient LLM useL.E.K. Consulting
BuiltCustom GPTs for consulting deliverablesL.E.K. Consulting

Beyond work

Community

Founder, Leaders in Life Sciences, a US/EU mentorship community

Founder, BioInnovation Group at UC Davis

UC Davis College of Engineering GOLD board

Languages and passports

Speaks English, German and Hungarian, and has both US and EU passports.

Lisa builds the tools she recommends.

Each of these packages a consulting or bioprocessing workflow into something anyone can run in a browser, in minutes instead of days. Open one and try it.

Claude artifacts

Claude artifact

Bioprocessing strategy brainstorming buddy

A thinking partner for bioprocessing strategy questions, built on her years in biomanufacturing and consulting.

Open in Claude → Claude artifact

Advanced diagnostics strategy brainstorming buddy

The same approach for diagnostics, from market framing to competitive questions.

Open in Claude → Claude artifact

Market research guide generator

Produces a consulting-style research guide for a life sciences market, ready to hand to a team.

Open in Claude →

Games

Game

Bioreactor Bros.

An 8-bit side-scroller where you grow one CHO fed-batch from seed vial to harvest in four minutes.

Play → Game

Drug name or typo?

Is it a real brand-name drug or a keyboard slip? Harder than it sounds.

Play → Game

California or Portugal?

Five seconds per photo, two minutes on the clock. Guess where each one was taken, then check the leaderboard.

Play →

Code for these and more is on GitHub.

Published

In progress

  • 2026AI biosecurity from the pharma industry sideResearch
  • 2026Leveraging LLMs in GxP contextsEssay

Lisa plays Irish and contra dance music on wooden flute and digital saxophone.

She gigs regularly for contra dances around the Bay Area.

Dance Dinos

with Leah Wollenberg and Will Wheeler

Live at Folklife, May 2026

Pizzatron 3000

with Deniz Akin and Peter Mellinger

Session, July 2026

Want to dance? Upcoming contra dances, including ones she's playing, are listed on the CDSS events calendar.

Find a dance →