#106 Five TechBio Myths That Must Go — Guillermo Vela (Co-Founder NeuScience)
Big Picture Medicine
English - November 08, 2022 18:09 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Guillermo Vela is the CEO and Co-Founder of NeuScience, a VC-backed TechBio company using AI to discover novel cancer biomarkers.
0:00 Intro
0:55 Eroom's Law
5:37 Contrarian View of Cancer
15:54 AI Will Not Make Drug Discovery Fast, Better or Cheaper
26:14 Failing is Not a Good Thing
26:38 TechBio Funding
34:07 Habits
He went viral, in the techbio scene, with his 'Five TechBio Myths That Must Go' article in which he explained why it doesn’t take $2.5bn to develop a drug and why technologies like AI wont’ make drug discovery faster, better or cheaper. We discuss that article, we discuss Guillermo’s contrarian view of cancer, why we’re doing more science than ever but not seeing results and how his ADD brain is a superpower.
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