Priscilla Chan
Physician and co-founder of CZI, driving the mission to cure diseases through frontier AI and biology.
“with a $500M commitment to the Virtual Biology Initiative. Building hierarchical world models of biology combining frontier AI with frontier wet-lab science.”
Source→“We were all inspired by baby KJ, when the team at CHOP was able to deliver a CRISPR therapeutic to edit a mutation that he had... because we needed to target his liver cells.”
Source→“We partner with Jennifer Doudna on a CRISPR Cures program at UCSF.”
Source→“What if we could actually understand how biology worked? Move it from a discovery-based science to an engineering-based science where we could systematically understand how living beings, living cells worked and be able to understand why things go wrong. And so when we saw that moment, we were like, this is it. Something really big could happen here.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.