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Patrick Hsu
Patrick Hsu appears in 2 indexed conversations across No Priors, The a16z Show. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Faster Science, Better Drugs
Erik TorenbergPatrick HsuJorge Conde
Arc is combining neuroscience, immunology, machine learning, chemical biology, and genomics to reduce organizational and experimental latency, with virtual cells aimed at navigating diseased cells toward healthy states.The commercial prize depends on better targets, drug design, higher clinical success, lower capital intensity, and shorter timelines, but physical testing and human endpoints remain serial bottlenecks while virtual-cell capability sits somewhere between GPT-1 and GPT-2.
No Priors Ep. 103 | With Vevo Therapeutics and the Arc Institute
Sarah GuoNima AlidoustJohnny YuPatrick HsuDave BurkeHani Goodarzi
Tahoe 100 brings 100 million single-cell measurements across 50 cancer models, 1,200 drug treatments, and 60,000 interactions to machine-learning scale.Its causal, diverse, consistently generated data supports Vivo’s Mosaic platform, while open sourcing recruits external model development.Virtual cells could narrow target and chemical search, but current differential-expression prediction is around 10%, benchmarks are unsettled, and therapeutic proof may take a roughly 10-year window.