Dr. Priscilla Chan

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

And so you have to choose something that you think is going to have some likelihood of success to keep your lab career going.

And so it naturally lends people to take on, like, some risk but not a lot of risk because they need to make sure that they are –

hitting like a certain percentage of the time to make tenure or publish or whatever they need to do.

But if you had a virtual cell model where you could simulate really high quality biology, you could actually then start testing and tinkering on the computational side and like ask riskier questions, things that would have been expensive and costly in terms of time and resources to do in the lab.

And actually see if there is promise doing the experiments in silico before you make the time and money investment in the wet lab.

I think it will obviously iterate and get better and better because right now we, like right now we're still just talking about transcriptomics.

We're expanding into different ways of looking at the cell, but you get more and more accuracy.

But I don't think it needs to be 100% accurate to be useful

because you just want to be able to de-risk the idea on the front end a little bit.

And the more and more you de-risk it, the more efficient it gets, obviously, but it'll be useful if you even get directional signal.

And yes, we do think about it like as a model organism, but in a way that's like

has fidelity to the human body.

Like, you know, like, I don't want to... All models are wrong.

Some are useful.

Yeah.

Well, the big news is thinking about how we are going to be coming together as one team.

And, you know, in the past we have done – we've run biohubs and we've done – built software.

We've done some AI research.

But all of it has been really thinking about – has been a little bit decentralized.

But now under Alex's leadership, we are going to come together as a biohub, an operating philanthropy where we are doing the science.

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