Colleagues, a few years ago I sat on a panel to discuss the 'future of chemistry', alongside Nobel Laureate Ben Feringa and Bowen Liu, a super bright doctoral candidate from Stanford. I came to the conclusion, happily, that emerging scientists like Bowen, who have adapted an amazing multi-disciplinary skillset from science and technology, really are the future of chemistry (and life science). I've followed Bowen as his career has progressed and he has definitely reinforced my thinking. I found this recent posting of his to be really interesting, as he discusses with Vijay Pande and Surya Ganguli an area very closely aligned with my interests. Check it out!
"AI for drug discovery can hit at all the inefficiencies in every step of the drug design process." - Surya Ganguli, a16z venture partner and Professor at Stanford University. Recently, Surya and Bowen Liu, a16z investment partner, joined Vijay Pande, PhD to go deep on AI in Bio. The trio dove into many aspects of AI in life sciences including the potential applications of self-supervised learning, which allows AI to learn from vast amounts of unlabelled data, drastically improving the prediction and design of new drugs. Listen on Raising Health: https://lnkd.in/dzjQ3Bux
AI + Chem/Bio | Investment Partner @ a16z
3moThanks, Tim! That was a really formative experience for me. I truly appreciate your kind support over these years