When DNA Meets AI [Entire Talk]

Startups
Identify a singular opportunity. From there, it’s just a matter of hitting your next benchmark.
Duration
50:17
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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

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Season 14

Episode

14

Midway through a M.D./Ph.D program at UCLA, Alice Zhang made a discovery that she felt could reverberate far beyond the halls of academia. So she shifted directions, leaving her Ph.D program to found Verge Genomics, a biomedical firm that aims to unite genetic research and artificial intelligence in service of drug discovery. She describes how AI can revolutionize the drug discovery process, and reframes risk-taking as a simple series of optimistic next steps.

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