Silvana Konermann

We've just seen over, I would say, really the last two years that it's getting real.

I think that within four years, five years, we will be able to have these models that are accurate enough to be useful.

And then it's a totally different way of doing biology.

Yeah, so this picture is when I was 15.

So I was born in a small town in Switzerland.

My parents weren't into science, but somehow I got really fascinated just with nature around me and also just how we worked as humans in our biology.

So I really wanted to find a way to be able to get into a lab to do some science.

It was actually pretty tricky for me, but

Eventually, I talked one of my science teachers into convincing one of his colleagues to let me go into the lab.

And so this is me with that first science project where I went on to win the national competition and then also the European Union competition.

And I think that's really where, you know, I got, I think, the confidence to continue with science since then.

Yeah, I have been, you know, I guess doing science now for more than 20 years, but I did want to say this is actually my first real public appearance.

So I am very, very much usually behind the scenes.

But yeah, I think a problem that I've really been thinking a lot about, I would say since undergrad, I did my undergrad in Switzerland in biology and neuroscience, and I learned more about Alzheimer's disease.

And, you know, we were learning, you know, how there are these

you know, big changes in the brain that are happening.

A lot of it is known about, you know, kind of late stages of the disease, how severe it is.

And then also the lecture, though, ended with basically, but we have no idea really how it's starting.

We still don't have a therapy.

And that was now, you know, a long time ago, that was...