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Nelsen is a fan of using machine learning and artificial intelligence to change drug development. Insitro's strategy of using creative computer models to examine what causes diseases and how they evolve stands out, he said.
Insitro had a busy 2020. It established collaborations with Bristol Myers Squibb in ALS and with Gilead Sciences in the liver disease NASH. It acquired Haystack Sciences, a high-throughput chemistry platform that enables machine-learning-driven molecular design.Vineeta Agarwala, an Andreessen Horowitz general partnerMaze is focused on unearthing new genetic targets from massive data sets, then figuring out the best way to tackle them with drugs.
Agarwala said that Jason Coloma was a"fantastic CEO" and that she admired Maze's strategy of focusing on ideas around genetics instead of building a specific technology. "It took a lot of creativity and forward thinking to say we're not going to be modality-constrained," she said."They've developed a pipeline and set of programs using a whole range of modalities to pursue a set of hypotheses tied by human genetics."What it does:
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