Dr. Priscilla Chan

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The a16z Show · Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Help Cure Disease · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Because you also know where else that drug will be able to interact with the body.

And so those are rare, but I really think most diseases should be thought of as rare diseases because each one of our biology is different.

And right now we just get lumped, right?

We get lumped based on age, demographics, ancestry, if we're lucky to have that level of understanding.

But truly, each one of our biology is different.

And say, like, if you look at hypertension or depression, like we kind of just go by trial and error.

and saying, like, let's just try that drug and see what happens.

But what should really happen is being able to precisely and accurately and quickly treat people by looking at individuals' biology.

We want to enable the basic science, and we would be thrilled if people picked up the models that we build to be able to build the diagnostics, the therapeutics that need to come.

Tell us more.

So do you want to share a little bit about cell by gene or do you want me to start?

Well, the single-cell work was one of our first RFAs 10 years ago we started.

And we were like, okay, we think this is possible.

We actually funded the methodology for it to standardize how it was going to be done.

So that was 10 years ago.

And then we seeded a few labs to start building out that data set.

But we were like, there are like...

millions or billions of different cell types and different permutations.

Like, how are we going to do this?

And especially with like a burgeoning technique.

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