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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases

Update: 2025-11-06
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Today’s guests are Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founders of Biohub (fka Chan Zuckerberg Initiative). They are one of the leading institutes for AI x Bio and open science research with projects like CELLxGENE, rbio1, VariantFormer, and many more. We talked about the evolution from a broad philanthropic institute to specializing in frontier AI + bio, why they are building 12ft tall microscopes to gather better data, and how building a virtual cell model + virtual immune system could potentially help us cure all diseases.

Chapters

  • 00:00:00 Introduction and CZI's 10-Year Anniversary
  • 00:00:56 Learning from Bill Gates
  • 00:04:05 Science vs Translation
  • 00:10:45 The Power of Physical Proximity in Science
  • 00:13:55 Building the Virtual Cell: From Data to Models
  • 00:15:51 Microscopes, Imaging, and Converting Atoms to Bits
  • 00:23:18 AI Meets Biology: The Frontier Lab Concept
  • 00:27:25 How Models Can Enable More Ambitious Research
  • 00:30:15 Precision Medicine and Clinical Impact
  • 00:45:17 The Virtual Immune System and Cellular Engineering
  • 00:48:27 Accelerating the Timeline: What It Takes to Cure All Disease
  • 00:28:45 Joining Forces with Evolutionary Scale

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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases