Dr. Suliman Sharif

Dr. Suliman Sharif
Chief Scientific Officer, Standard Seed Corporation

Dr. Suliman Sharif is a scientist, technologist, and community leader with expertise in drug discovery, artificial intelligence, and cheminformatics. As founder of Standard Seed Corporation, Dr. Sharif is leading research and development efforts to advance plant extract products through the FDA-approved botanical drug discovery or new dietary ingredient pathway, integrating AI-driven chemical analysis, chemical disease pathway prediction, advanced formulation strategies, and regulatory planning. His work at Standard Seed Co includes building an Artificial Intelligence Factory for plant chemical data, and establishing intellectual property chemical estates and revenue pipelines for botanical products. Dr. Sharif is also the founder of Global-Chem, an open-source chemical knowledge graph initiative, and has contributed to academic research, open-source software, and science education, making him a recognized thought leader at the intersection of computational chemistry, machine learning, and pharmaceutical innovation.