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Vijay Pande

2 years

1/ I’m thrilled to announce our fourth @a16z Bio Fund, bringing $1.5B of new capital to invest in the intersection of technology, life sciences & healthcare.

$9B to Build the Future | Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz just raised $9B to invest via our Venture, Growth, and Bio funds. Why invest $9B in a brand new set of technology companies?

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Vijay Pande

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1 year

1/ Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug? People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.

Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug?

People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.

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1/We think the biggest company in the world will be a consumer health tech company. Four of the top five biggest companies in the world are consumer companies, and healthcare is one of the nation’s biggest industries. @daisydwolf @a16z @a16zBioHealth

The Biggest Company in the World | Andreessen Horowitz

We think the biggest company in the world will be a consumer health tech company. This may sound crazy to some, but why shouldn’t this be true? Four of the top five biggest companies in the world are...

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1/ Some people have been suggesting that this work shows how AI is dangerous -- AI can design molecules that are toxic. This is doomerism BS. Let me explain why ...

It’s apparently not that hard to design poisons using AI.

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3 years

1/ @Jeff_Jordan and I are excited to announce that @a16z is leading @Levels $12M Seed Round to bring biowearables into the mainstream and improve metabolic health.

Levels announces $12M seed round

Levels raises $12M seed round led by a16z to bring biowearables into the mainstream and improve metabolic health and fitness.

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4 years

1/ Over the past few weeks, @a16z bio companies have seen $1B in follow-on investments, all for advancing human healthcare and well being. It’s time to build. Here’s how we’re continuing to build through our amazingly talented entrepreneurs:

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“Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after a pandemic will seem inadequate.” – Secretary Mike Leavitt, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2007.

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3/ It’s like saying AI can design an airplane that can’t fly and everyone dies. It’s easy to design things that don’t work. We don't need AI for that.

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4 years

I'm thrilled to announce that Vineeta Agarwala will be joining @a16z as our newest General Partner! @vintweeta has had many different roles in the healthcare space: as a physician, as an operator at tech-driven healthcare companies, and as an investor.

Vineeta Agarwala | Andreessen Horowitz

I first met Vineeta fifteen years ago. She was then an undergrad in one of the most challenging graduate-level classes at Stanford—Chem 275, Advanced Statistical Mechanics. Students dreaded this...

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1 year

“ChatGPT performed at or near the passing threshold for all three [medical licensing] exams without any specialized training or reinforcement. Additionally, ChatGPT demonstrated a high level of concordance and insight in its explanations.”

Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-Assisted Medical Education Using Large Language...

We evaluated the performance of a large language model called ChatGPT on the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), which consists of three exams: Step 1, Step 2CK, and Step 3. ChatGPT...

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Is expert AI better than the median doctor? @pmarca and @vijaypande discuss the implications of expert AI in the bio and healthcare space. Watch the full video from @a16zbiohealth 's Bio Eats World. 👇

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5 years

My take on How to Engineer Biology fresh off the press at Scientific American.

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6 months

@ai_in_check Read up and then let's chat science not your narratives.

Deep Learning for the Life Sciences: Applying Deep Learning to Genomics, Microscopy, Drug Discove...

Deep Learning for the Life Sciences: Applying Deep Learning to Genomics, Microscopy, Drug Discovery, and More

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2/They're forgetting that it's actually quite easy for molecules to be toxic (that's partly why drug design is so hard), and so AI doing so isn't anything new or scary.

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@vijaypande

6 years

I’m thrilled to join the board and lead the $300M series B investment in ⁦ @DevotedHealth ⁩ , leading the way to create a modern Medicare Advantage plan to solve the critical national challenge of how to improve care for **and** reduce cost. @a16z

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3 years

1/ What’s the closest historical cataclysm to Covid? I’d say World War 2, bringing global upheaval & new winners and losers, followed by decades of innovation and the Military Industrial Complex. What comes after Covid? The Industrial Bio Complex and ...

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1 year

2/ It fun to speculate how this could work. An obvious thesis is that there are so many comorbidities with weight gain that reverse with its loss. Either way, amazing to see this.

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Of all of the regulatory agencies, it’s odd for @Chamath to suggest that the FDA is the most natural example of how to perform AI regulation. That suggests his base-case belief is that 1) most AI is dangerous –– eg most molecules are toxic and 2) it’s not clear if any given AI…

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@chamath

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If you invent a novel drug, you need the government to vet and approve it (FDA) before you can commercialize it. If you invent a new mode of air travel, you need the government to vet and approve it (FAA) before you can commercialize it. If you create a new security, you need…

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3 months

The biggest wins for AI will be in healthcare.

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Geoffrey Hinton: 200,000 people a year die of incorrect medical diagnoses in the United States. AI will fix that in the next 10 years.

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6 years

Fantastic review of ML. A must read for physical scientists interested in ML: "A high-bias, low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists” by Pankaj Mehta, Ching-Hao Wang, Alexandre G. R. Day, and Clint Richardson.

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“When Machine Learning Becomes AI” – a new @a16z animated short video!

When Machine Learning Becomes AI

Even among experts, the terms “machine learning” and “AI” can mean very different things. When does it truly become artificial intelligence? a16z general par...

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@vijaypande

4 years

Sorry to rain on the CS parade, but actually, that’s histogramming not sorting — makes sense why it’s O(n)! :-)

🔥Kareem Carr | Statistician 🔥

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My new algorithm sorts inputs in O(n) time!

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Hey Tech, It’s Time To Build. In Healthcare. In the past few months, the founders of Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase have all started new healthcare companies. Why are these seasoned tech founders jumping into tech-driven healthcare? 1/

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5 months

LFG!!!

Gene Investing w/Anthony 🧬

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Seems like a consensus is forming amongst many smart people! This is Jensen Huang, CEO of $NVDA Basically WATCH OUT for the impending biotech BOOM 💥

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1/ IT'S TIME TO HEAL. Tech is often criticized for a culture of moving fast and breaking things. But what we saw last year was tech enabling bio and healthcare to move fast, to *heal*.

Time to Heal | Andreessen Horowitz

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@vijaypande

4 years

1/ Drug design is fundamentally a data science problem.

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@vijaypande

6 years

Artificial Intelligence’s ‘Black Box’ Is Nothing to Fear — unlike human intelligence, we can in dive deep to understand AI, much more so than human intelligence. @nytimes @a16z

Opinion | Artificial Intelligence’s ‘Black Box’ Is Nothing to Fear (Published 2018)

We actually understand this technology better than we understand human decision-making.

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1. Four years ago, when we launched our first bio fund, the idea that software would make an impact in drug discovery sounded like science fiction; the idea it could transform the patient experience in healthcare a fool’s errand.

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@vijaypande

7 years

Quantum Computing will catch people by surprise. Forest from @rigetti will enable to develop for quantum, now.

Rigetti Computing | Andreessen Horowitz

Classical computers thrive on the curve of Moore’s law, with performance roughly doubling every year; after n years, classical computers are 2^n times faster. This means we’ve seen roughly a 1000x...

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3 years

“Cows are extremely inefficient at turning plants into dairy” -- Nobell CEO Magi Richani. It takes 6 kg of plant protein to produce just 1 kg of animal protein, 1 gallon of milk 1000 gallons of water, not to mention that dairy cows contribute 2% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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1/ I am thrilled to announce that @a16z has led Scribe's $20M Series A investment round and that I have joined their board of directors. Today I am excited to see Scribe unveil their mission and progress to the broader community.

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AlphaFold results from @DeepMind are impressive, but not for what you think -- it's not fixing any major bottleneck in drug design, but beautifully points the way for AI and tech advances in bio in years to come. Details in the @a16z podcast w @smc90 !

16 Minutes #48: AlphaFold! Protein Folding, Beyond the Hype | Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode of our show 16 Minutes — where we talk about the headlines, and where we are on the long arc of tech trends — we cover the news around Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold system for predict...

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I'm excited to announce @eladgil and @a16z are co-leading @bioagelabs $90M Series C round to support their AI-driven platform to map the key pathways that drive human aging and advance their first platform-derived therapies into clinical trials in H1 2021.

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3 years

India has the opportunity to be a leader in crypto, a key infrastructure for the future. It would bring in potentially billions in new investments and create a new role as a leader in this key space.

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India should support crypto as a pillar of its foreign & domestic policy. It defends national security by preventing deplatforming, deters fraud via on-chain accounting, and offers a decentralized alternative to a new Cold War. @nsitharaman @narendramodi

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Machine Learning is often viewed as a black box curve fitting scheme, devoid from physics. We take an approach to derive a new scheme for DFT where ML can naturally plug in and learn the missing features of the functional, leading to remarkable accuracy.

Physical machine learning outperforms "human learning" in...

Two types of approaches to modeling molecular systems have demonstrated high practical efficiency. Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely used quantum chemical method, is a physical...

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6 years

Biology is riddled with technical debt. What does this mean for how we can wrap our minds around its complexity and break through? Some of my thoughts for how this impacts the goals of Engineering Biology. @a16z

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6 years

With @AppCardiogram ’s AI approach, the Apple Watch can do things never intended — identify issues in heart disease, hypertension, and now even diabetes –– with high accuracy.

The Apple Watch can detect diabetes with an 85% accuracy, Cardiogram study says | TechCrunch

According to Cardiogram founder Brandon Ballinger's latest clinical study, the Apple Watch can detect diabetes in those previously diagnosed with the

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5 years

When you look at the numbers, it’s surprising how little health care can actually help prevent premature death, compared with the other forces at work. It’s a great opportunity for tech to save people’s lives through new mechanisms.

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Consumer-focused healthcare can save lives by focusing on changing behavior

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8 years

I’m very excited about joining @a16z as a General Partner, investing in software companies in Bio.

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1 year

Company with N employees: - sqrt(N) doing most, with the rest: - junior people with reasonable attitudes and minimal skills & contributions - 0.1x lifestyle workers - Good talkers, look like stars but are smoke and mirrors, spending time lobbying others instead of doing (-1x)

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3 years

1/ The Next Pandemic is Cost in Healthcare. And artificial intelligence (AI) will play a transformative role in solving this problem. And along the way, shows a more general solution to a “disease” in economics -- curing Baumol’s cost disease.

Solving Baumol’s Cost Disease, in Healthcare | Andreessen Horowitz

It’s Time to Heal is a special package about engineering the future of bio and healthcare. See more at: https://a16z.com/time-to-heal/. Why does the cost of education and healthcare services continue...

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3 years

. @a16z podcast Bio Eats World with Jennifer Doudna @doudna_lab ! What does the future of biology look like?Can discovery itself be industrialized? What can be built on today’s discoveries? Doudna talks about the arc of her career and work through this lens.

Bio Eats World: The Art and Science of Biology’s Future | Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode of Bio Eats World, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Doudna—winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for the co-discovery (with Emmanuelle Charpentier) of CRISPR-Cas9—about the art and science of...

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5 years

Lots of mind blowing tech emerging. But the real challenge now turns to go to market — who pays for this, how do doctors put it into their workflow, who makes sure it’s reliable in life and death situations? The team that overcomes those challenges will change healthcare.

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Our latest health research has been published in @nature today, using AI to predict patient deterioration up to two days before it happens. Read more here:

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4 years

Goodbye plastic! @apeelsciences is ready to prove that the plastic versus food waste faceoff is “a false choice,” says CEO @jamestrogers . Apeel is launching ‘plastic-free’ cucumbers at @Walmart to cut back on waste. @FortuneMagazine @bethkowitt

Exclusive: Startup Apeel is launching ‘plastic-free’ cucumbers at Walmart to cut back on waste

This month Walmart will start selling Apeel's English cucumbers that don't need single-use plastic in order to extend shelf life.

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Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna @doudna_lab and Emmanuelle Charpentier for their 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing."

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1/ AI can change how we prevent and treat illness, but to truly transform a nuanced field like health and medicine, we need to invest in what I term “specialist” AIs that learn and navigate complex decisions like our best physicians and drug developers do.

To Make a Real Difference in Health Care, AI Will Need to Learn Like We Do

AI is poised to irrevocably change how we look to prevent and treat illness. Specialist AI will help make this a reality.

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3 years

We’re now at a tipping point where AI can supercharge clinician decision making. @bayesianhealth has brought this new capability to the front lines of healthcare with demonstrable results. Thrilled to lead Bayesian's Series A & partner with @suchisaria !

Investing in Bayesian Health | Andreessen Horowitz

Our healthcare system is a world of contradictions. It performs miracles on a daily basis, like healing cancer patients, transplanting organs, and enabling trauma victims to recover against all odds....

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CAR T is just getting started. Bringing aging biology into the mainstream will have broad impact into numerous indications — getting closer to that mythical fountain of youth. @JorgeCondeBio @andy23tran @lr_bio @a16z

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We know about CAR T therapy for cancer, but could it also be the fountain of youth? @jorgecondebio , @andy23tran and @LR_bio discuss new research in @nature which engineers T cells to attack the "sleeping" cells that underlie many age-related conditions:

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New @a16z podcast “Breaking into Bio” with @DaphneKoller of @insitro and @atulbutte from @ucsf giving advice for founding or being early employees in startups, especially those at the intersection of Bio and ML.

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Machine learning’s new frontier: Chemistry! Great progress, much more to do. @techreview @tsimonite @A_Aspuru_Guzik

Software Dreams Up New Molecules in Quest for Wonder Drugs

Ingesting a heap of drug data allows a machine-learning system to suggest alternatives humans hadn’t tried yet.

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Proud to see five @a16z portfolio companies -- @apeelsciences @Airbnb @oculus @Pinterest and @SlackHQ — on @TIME Magazine’s 50 “Genius Companies of 2018” with other greats!

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And it gets stranger: Ozempic and Wegovy appear to reverse the impairments in cancer-fighting natural killer cells seen in people with obesity, independent of weight loss.

Ozempic and Wegovy have taken over obesity treatment. Can they help with cancer, too?

Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy may have benefits beyond helping patients shed pounds. | Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy may have benefits beyond helping patients shed pounds: They appear to...

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1/ Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug? People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.

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We believe our society is poised to benefit greatly from the next major tech revolution — this time in the biotech space. Thanks @endpts for sharing the story of @a16z ’s journey into bio as well as my own path from academia to VC.

Is this Silicon Valley duo the future of biotech?

SAN FRANCISCO — Seven years ago, Silicon Valley’s brashest venture capitalist invited a soft-spoken Stanford biophysicist out for pancakes not far from here, planning to make a request he publicly...

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Genesis Therapeutics lands a stellar $200M Series B! Their #GEMS platform is leading the way, blending AI with physical insights for next-gen treatments. Congrats to @enfeinberg & the team!

Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup lands $200M for AI-based drug discovery

Genesis Therapeutics, a startup using artificial intelligence to design small molecule drugs, has raised $200 million in Series B financing — one of the largest rounds for an AI-focused biotech this...

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This is the century of Biology. But, yea, biology is hard for people to wrap their head around the complexity and unknown unknowns. AI combined with engineering automation has emerged as a key step forward in unraveling that complexity and uncovering those unknown unknowns.

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Seems like tech is in love... 🧬💘 "Where do I think the next amazing revolution is going to come? And this is going to be flat-out one of the biggest ones ever. There's no question that digital biology is going to be it." — Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia "Biology is the next big…

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. @amazon AI knows me well in broad strokes, but clearly not quite well enough! They just emailed me this book recommendation:

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Yes! And just imagine what AI + bio could do.

AI gets the attention, but biotechnology is poised to change the world

New advances in gene editing and more could remake the economy — but carry major risks.

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Congratulations @DaphneKoller and the @insitro team on all of your milestones towards reshaping drug discovery and development through Machine Learning––including your $400M Series C financing announced today.

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We're thrilled to announce our $400M Series C financing, which will greatly enable us to continue advancing our vision to reshape the discovery and development of transformative medicines by leveraging #machinelearning and biology and chemistry at scale.

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Engineered through materials science principles, “this plant-based coating makes fruits and veggies last up to four times longer,” tackling logistics for the 1st and 3rd worlds, $1T food waste, and making a dent in world hunger. @apeelsciences @michellelinnSF @inhabitat @a16z

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Apeel is solving #foodwaste in a way that works with nature—not against it. #sustainability #foodforfood @inhabitat

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Bio is eating malls! :-) For 51 years, The Shops at Tanforan have lived in San Bruno, about 10 miles south of the San Francisco city limits. Now, the mall is getting razed, and the 44-acre site is being redeveloped into housing and a new biotech campus.

Tanforan Mall Closing in San Bruno, Transforming Into Biotech Campus

For 51 years, The Shops at Tanforan have lived in San Bruno, about 10 miles south of the San Francisco city limits. Now, the mall is getting razed, and the 44-acre site is being redeveloped into...

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Reinforcement Learning outperforms previous algorithms at RNA Design. Analysis of its solutions shows it has successfully learned some advanced strategies previously identified, allowing it to solve some very difficult structures. @PandeLab

Solving the RNA design problem with reinforcement learning

Author summary Designing RNA sequences that fold to desired structures is an important problem in bioengineering. We have applied recent advances in machine learning to address this problem. The...

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The biology of aging is going to be key to getting us out of this pandemic, treating COVID and beyond. Congratulations @bioagelabs on your progress with BGE-175, this major step forward.

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@Bioagelabs announces plans to advance PGD2 DP1 inhibitor BGE-175 into Phase 2 clinical trials to treat older #COVID19 patients by targeting immune #aging . BGE-175 selected using BioAge’s AI-driven platform of human aging data. #AI #healthspan Learn more:

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Corona is accelerating the future. Our ability to industrialize the drug development process via engineering means that we have more hope for speeding this process than ever—not just to defeat corona, but to benefit the development of all new medicines in the future— @endpts OpEd

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@vijaypande offers his thoughts on -- Drug discovery in the age of coronavirus @endpts

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Congratulations @enfeinberg and Genesis Therapeutics for their recent partnership deal with Genetech/Roche!

Genentech taps Stanford University spinout for AI drug discovery partnership

Genentech has tapped an artificial intelligence startup spun out of Stanford University late last year to help it discover new drugs across multiple the | Genentech has tapped an artificial intelli...

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Our @MorganLBrennan discussed where the US stands in the #AI race with China, investing opportunities and more with @a16z 's @bhorowitz and @davidu Full interview:

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As an undergraduate at @Princeton , I was blessed that Prof. Phil Anderson was my mentor in my thesis. To this day, I often consider points he made to me then, as well as the deep and fearless way he approached science. His passing is a huge loss.

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See you Monday 5pm PST on @joinClubhouse for @a16z ’s “It’s Time to Heal ” with @vijaypande , @JorgeCondeBio , @vintweeta , @julesyoo , discussing the future of Bio and healthcare broadly. This week’s special guest @jamestrogers of @apeelsciences !

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It was wonderful hosting the @foldingathome & @PandeLab reunion, seeing old friends and colleagues. It was striking to see how many have worked with each other after leaving the lab. Thanks to @guha and @drGregBowman for organizing!

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100% of stock trades used to be made by humans. Today, 80% are made by computer algorithms. AI is about to bring a similar revolution to healthcare. And many don't realize how big this will be. "Underestimating AI in Healthcare" -- @daisydwolf @JayRughani @adelatomsejova …

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In the decade since its discovery the #CRISPR toolbox has exploded, accelerating curiosity-driven science and establishing itself as a foundational technology for many biotech companies looking to engineer biology.

Recognizing the Next CRISPR-Level Tech for Biology | Andreessen Horowitz

Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her co-discovery of CRISPR/Cas9, a versatile genome editing platform. In the decade since its discovery the toolbox of CRISPR technologies...

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Engineering biology is transforming many areas in Bio. Here's my take on "How to *Reverse* Engineer Biology."

How to Reverse Engineer Biology | Andreessen Horowitz

The idea of reverse engineering biology seems like a paradox. How could we ever reverse engineer anything for which we didn’t “invent” the original technology? Radios, bridges, computers—all these...

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An exaflop now seems to be not that far away. Glad to see it going to fight COVID.

Greg Bowman

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Amazing! @foldingathome now has over 470 petaFLOPS of compute power. To put that in perspective, that's more than 2x the peak performance of the Summit super computer!

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1/ Understanding how we age is a way into a new era of medicine, into identifying new targets for diseases we’ve never truly understood (let alone known how to treat). The cure for aging just might be the cure for disease. @kpfortney @bioagelabs @a16z

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"For entrepreneurs with more funding options than ever, Yoo's experience breathing life into a startup of her own is a major selling point" -- @statnews piece on @julesyoo of @a16z bio health

How Andreessen Horowitz competes for the best health tech startups

"This is not a space where you can cobble something together, throw it over the fence, and hope it works," @julesyoo of @a16z told STAT.

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Hey tech — it’s time to build in healthcare!

a16z

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Healthcare represents a colossal, untapped market ripe for technological disruption. @vijaypande & @daisydwolf call on tech to build in healthcare in one of our top articles of 2023:

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Congrats @enfeinberg and Genesis Therapeutics on your $52M Series A, led by Rock Springs, with investment participation from @TRowePrice , @a16z , @felicis , @MenloVentures , @JazzVentures , @PropagatorVC , and others!

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Great deck on healthcare reform by @bballinger

Why Is Healthcare Reform So Complicated? | Andreessen Horowitz

With all the activity and conversation around healthcare reform, I thought it would be useful to share this short, internal deck from one of our portfolio companies, Cardiogram, via their CEO Brandon...

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WOW– @foldingathome breaks past 2.4 EXAFLOPS–more than the top 500 supercomputers combined! Interestingly, if you look how Summit and other supercomputers are being used to fight Covid, they're running them also in a FAH style massively parallel approach, just a lot smaller.

Folding@home

@foldingathome

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With our collective power, we are now at ~2.4 exaFLOPS (faster than the top 500 supercomputers combined)! We complement supercomputers like IBM Summit, which runs short calculations using 1000s of GPUs at once, by spreading longer calculations around the world in smaller chunks!

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Screening for Hypertension and Sleep Apnea with DeepHeart – @AppCardiogram shows how AI + AppleWatch can tackle numerous issues as they are all linked via the autonomic nervous system.

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Bio is mirroring the steps taking by CS 50 years ago, with hopefully its own 50 years of science-fiction like innovation. @asimov_io @a16z

Asimov | Andreessen Horowitz

Modern computer chips are a marvel of human engineering. With billions of transistors, they are among the most complex devices we’ve ever created, yet they operate with precision and digital accura...

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@netcapgirl Hey @netcapgirl — where is this from? The tech review article published seems to go the other way.

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.

The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.

www.technologyreview.com

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Congratulations Jakob Uszkoreit & the Inceptive team for your $100M Series A Fundraise, co-lead by @nvidia ventures and @a16zBioHealth . We're excited to continue to partner with you on using Generative AI to build mRNA medicines. @a16z @kyosu

Using AI to Take Bio Farther with Jakob Uszkoreit | Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode, Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, talks with Jakob Uszkoreit, the cofounder of Inceptive, about the past and future of AI — and how AI can be used to push the...

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I'm thrilled to announce @a16z investment in @asimov_io , to engineer bio at the cellular scale by applying the same tool-chain for electronic circuits.

Asimov | Andreessen Horowitz

Modern computer chips are a marvel of human engineering. With billions of transistors, they are among the most complex devices we’ve ever created, yet they operate with precision and digital accura...

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I’m excited to support Ciitizen and its mission to empower patients through bringing health care’s “dark data” into the light. @ciitizencorp

Ciitizen | Andreessen Horowitz

One of the greatest missed opportunities in health care is all of the “dark data” out there — this includes all the critically useful data sets detailing specific patient treatments and health...

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3 years

By request -- some pics from the early days of @foldingathome and @pandelab . Please forgive the mess -- we were all still learning!

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Deep Chem is our effort to bridge the gap between modern Machine Learning methods and researchers in molecular sciences. V2.0 out today, more on the way. @deep_chem

Bharath Ramsundar

@rbhar90

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I'm excited to announce that @deep_chem 2.0 has just been released! We've significantly refactored and extended our TensorGraph framework (built on @TensorFlow ) to let us support more deep learning chem/bio/science applications. Please check it out!

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All Eyes Are on Digital Health Pioneer Omada's Next Move — Building a huge company by healing people before they get sick rather than monetizing the sickness.

His biggest rival scored a $13.9 billion buyout. Now the CEO who helped pioneer the digital health...

With the industry that Omada helped invent finally taking off, several potential acquirers have approached the company as recently as last year.

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Evil is easy, Good is hard – why AI will heal not hurt We shouldn’t worry about the ability of AI to create bioterrorism weapons. Restricting AI’s ability to understand biology and chemistry would pose a far greater danger. Here's why:

Opinion | AI Is a Healer, Not a Killer

It will find new drugs. We already have dangerous chemicals.

www.wsj.com

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Please join @a16z bio on @Clubhouse for “Predicting COVID with Michael Levitt and Balaji Srinivasan” Monday, Jun 14 at 5:00 PM PDT. with @balajis , @MLevitt_NP2013 , @pmarca , @vijaypande , @JorgeCondeBio , @vintweeta , @julesyoo ,

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Congratulations @DaphneKoller (CEO/founder of @Insitro ) for your pioneering advances in Machine Learning in Biology and Healthcare!

Association for Computing Machinery

@TheOfficialACM

4 years

ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award recipient @DaphneKoller has been instrumental in using #MachineLearning as a tool to advance biology and medicine. As a co-founder of @coursera , she has also made great contributions to democratizing education:

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ok, so you build a giant super braniac computer, ask it a question, and the answer is ... 42?

Information is Beautiful

@infobeautiful

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Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 - which does it pick? (by @Leniolabs_ )

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Tomorrow — join special guest Anne Wojcicki @annewoj23 , CEO of @23andMe , and @a16z for her take on the future of all things bio & healthcare, with @JorgeCondeBio , @pmarca , @vintweeta , @julesyoo , and @vijaypande . Mar 22 at 5:00 PM PDT on @joinclubhouse .

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. @Rigetti has the potential to finally unlock quantum computing for comp chemistry, machine learning and much more.

Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million in Series A and B Funding, Led by Andreessen Horowitz and Vy...

/PRNewswire/ -- Rigetti Computing, a leading quantum computing start-up, announced it has raised $64 million in Series A and B funding. The Series A round of...

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ML is changing how drug design is performed. @TwoXAR has demonstrated their technology can speed and lower the cost of drug design and is now ready to scale their pipeline. I’m excited to support them in their series A, led by Softbank Ventures.

TwoXAR | Andreessen Horowitz

The discovery of small molecule drugs follows a well-honed playbook. You first discover the drug target, then discover the lead drugs that can hit those targets, optimize those leads, and then enter...

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Please join ⁦ @Microsoft ⁩ CEO ⁦⁦ @satyanadella ⁩ , ⁦ @NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, and others in supporting ⁦ @foldingathome ⁩ ‘s efforts to bring the worlds computers together to fight COVID. “Together, We Are Powerful.”

Together, We Are Powerful

Join us at Foldingathome.org

www.youtube.com

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AI is eating biology & medicine.

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network

@czbiohub

1 month

The CZ Biohub Network is pleased to welcome the biomedical & AI expertise of 3 new members to our Board of Directors: 🌟Sam Altman/ @sama , @OpenAI CEO 🌟Sam Hawgood, @UCSF Chancellor 🌟Mike Schroepfer/ @schrep , Partner @Gigascale View the full Board:

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Two @PandeLab papers out today, and a summary write up "AI for Drug Discovery in Two Stories” by Evan Feinberg @enfeinberg

AI for Drug Discovery in Two Stories

Post by Pande Lab member Evan N. Feinberg

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I’m excited to announce our investment in Q, a "Positive Feedback Loop for Humanity"

A Positive Feedback Loop for Humanity

Creating a world where every generation is healthier than the last and treatable diseases no longer take lives.

medium.com

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. @a16z and I am thrilled to support @NautilusBio , who is on track to measure the whole human proteome, transforming our ability to understand biology on the molecular scale, with huge potential implications for diagnostics, drug design, and changing the standard of care.

Endpoints News

@endpts

4 years

Bezos, Paul Allen funds, a16z put up $100M to build an Illumina of human proteins

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1/ The race to sequence the human genome set the bar for what engineering in biology could do. Thirty years ago, this race started with the audacious goal of understanding the blueprint of humanity––sequencing the entire human genome, completed roughly twenty years ago.

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I’ve seen programmable materials! It’s called biology. :-)

Riva

@rivatez

4 years

holding out that progress in information theory, chemistry and material sciences will allow for us to see programmable matter in our lifetimes, how cool would that be

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