Ali Tajbakhsh — also known as Alan Tajbakhsh — is the founder of OpenElpis, an independent, non-profit, open-source initiative building a trustworthy, citation-grounded AI research copilot for breast cancer.
A Technical Business Analyst and Project Manager based in Türkiye, Ali has spent his career turning complex technical work into things people can actually use. OpenElpis grew out of a simple conviction: that the world's hard-won medical knowledge should reach the researchers and clinicians fighting breast cancer — clearly, openly, and grounded in real evidence.
Breast cancer is the most-researched cancer in the world, yet thousands of papers a week and hard-won clinical insight never reach the people who could use them. OpenElpis starts there — a trustworthy middle layer where every contribution is validated in and every answer is citation-grounded out — and is built to extend the same trust pipeline to other cancers over time.
Ali leads the project across product, engineering, and partnerships — from the live platform to the funding and infrastructure that keep it running on donated resources. If you're a researcher, clinician, engineer, or potential sponsor, he'd love to hear from you.
OpenElpis is non-profit and the code stays open. Whether you want to contribute expertise, sponsor infrastructure, or just follow along, Ali Tajbakhsh and the project are easy to reach.
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