What podcasts say about Alice Zhang
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What Alice Zhang has said on podcasts
24 statements · 19 positive · 4 negative · 1 neutral
Converge is a target-discovery engine for identifying disease-causing proteins and designing drugs.
“what we built Converge originally is what we call, it's a, called a target discovery engine”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 31:34
Verge Labs has partnered with more than 24 global tissue banks, hospitals, and academic centers.
“we've partnered with more than 24 different tissue banks, hospitals, academic centers across the world”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 33:04
Verge Labs sequences approximately 30,000 genes across DNA, RNA, and protein levels.
“we sequence them so we capture the behavior of all 30,000 genes in the genome at multiple levels from the DNA to RNA to protein”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 33:32
Verge Labs can reconstruct a patient’s brain state from a single blood draw.
“create what we call a virtual biopsy of the brain”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 34:34
Transformer architectures can infer missing biological data across patient modalities.
“The power of these transformer based architectures is that it allows you to actually piece together missing data and infer missing data from what you have”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 35:43
Direct brain tissue is necessary to understand neurological disease mechanisms accurately.
“you need to go into the brain where it's happening”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 37:46
Brain tissue provides molecular ground truth for neurological disease models.
“brain tissue is like the lidar of neuroscience in that it's just the molecular ground truth of disease”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 38:13
Verge Labs represents each patient as a 512-dimensional vector.
“each patient is represented essentially as a 512 dimensional vector”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 39:54
Verge Labs’ multimodal architecture maps blood, brain, and genetic data into one shared space.
“Blood, brain and genetics can all live in the same mathematical language”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 40:40
Verge Labs’ model can reconstruct brain activity from blood alone with high accuracy.
“our own model, with high accuracy, can actually accurately reconstruct brain activity from blood alone”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 42:30
Verge Labs can identify likely responders and enable smaller, cheaper clinical trials.
“we can help you pick out which patients to roll in your next trial that actually respond to your drug and let you design a much smaller and cheaper clinical trial”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 43:42
Verge Labs’ therapeutic partnerships involve $25–42 million upfront and $700–800 million in milestones.
“it was a 25 to 42 million upfront with then milestones that total up to anywhere between 700 to $800 million each”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 44:23
Verge Labs says 83% of Lilly-partnership targets validated in wet-lab experiments.
“83% of those targets actually validated in wet lab experiments”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 46:20
Neuroscience currently trails cancer research by approximately 10–20 years.
“it's why I think neuroscience is long behind cancer by 10, 20 years”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 48:00
Biological AI gains have come more from scaling data and modalities than model parameters.
“the biggest gains we've seen have actually come from scaling data and modalities”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 49:07
Verge Labs plans to model patient disease progression longitudinally.
“we can actually create a virtual model of the patient in time where we can actually run forward”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 51:21
Early intervention in Alzheimer’s disease can alter disease progression.
“being able to intervene early enough to change your trajectory”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 52:12
Verge Labs observes nonlinear performance gains as it adds biological samples.
“we are seeing scaling laws in our data right where we're. And they're Nonlinear and increase as we add samples”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 53:10
Within five years, AI will support multiple stages of drug development.
“what I see in five years is really, I think AI will come into the pipeline at multiple points from multiple different models”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 55:05
AI will enable personalized medicine based on distinct disease subtypes and individual responses.
“that really brings us to a world of true personalized medicine”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 55:29
Developing one drug currently costs approximately $5 billion on average.
“it costs $5 billion on average all in to develop a single drug”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 56:31
Approximately 90% of drug-development attempts fail at the final stage.
“9 out of the 10 attempts fail at the last stage in the most expensive stage”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 56:46
Accurate drug-success prediction could reduce development costs from billions to tens of millions.
“if you can perfectly with accuracy predict kind of which drug will succeed, it goes from 5 billion to really tension tens of millions to really get a drug all the way through”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 57:12
A major risk is abandoning healthcare AI after an early setback.
“the biggest risk is more of a human one, which is that we kind of lose interest in AI or in the application of AI in healthcare just because we kind of face one step back”
Open the episode · The hottest running app has nothing to do with speed | E2303Listen at 58:38
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