Bio2040 - Bottlenecks & Future of Science, Healthcare & Biotech

By Flavio RumpScience Life Sciences

Bio2040 - Bottlenecks & Future of Science, Healthcare & Biotech episodes

October 11, 2024 From Code to Crops: Roots co-founder Abhi's Cutting-Edge Use of AI in Agriculture
One of the most exciting conversations I have had all year. Abhi, co-founder and CEO of roots is is a software engineer turned farmer who is really pushing LLMs to the edge of their abilities.

In this interview, we discover how he has been using Google Gemini’s large context windows to feed it thousands of agriculture science papers and discover insights relevant for his agriculture startup Living Roots. His insights have already generated 30% yield increases for smallhold farmers in the first season, at very limited cost!

At roots, Abhi and the team are even going so far as to combine Reinforcement Learning with LLMs reasoning abilities to predict the outcome of agricultural interventions.

During this interview, I really got to think that every research lab on the planet should have the pipeline that Abhi has built. Please watch for a really insightful and fun conversation

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1 hr 5 min
March 25, 2022 Sam Lee, The History, Future and Workings of Synthetic Biology
In Bio2040’s latest episode we had the chance to talk to Sam Lee, a long-time veteran of the biotech space.

This episode covers some of the history and fundamentals of the synthetic biology and biomanufacturing space.
52 min
January 20, 2019 E13 Challenges and Opportunities in Translating Innovation with Nadine C. Martin
What are the main challenges in translating scientific innovation from the bench-side to the bedside? Physician and long-term Pharma executive Nadine Martin is now in charge of innovation management at sitem-insel AG. A translational unit of the Inselspital in Bern.
52 min
January 18, 2019 E12 How to Use Technology to Improve Research with Aleksandra Sokolowska
SEED2019 is a scrappy conference targeting innovation within the science publishing & funding process. It will bring together a diverse set of stakeholders and be followed by an incubator to implement the best ideas. We discuss problems and ideas on how to best solve the most pressing problems of academia.
45 min
April 17, 2018 11 Open Source Drug Discovery with M4K Pharma's Owen Roberts
How Open Source Drug Discovery can lower the risk and cost of drug discovery. M4K Pharma is pioneering a completely new model, where patents are not filed but data is shared. Yet they are still able to make money.
45 min
April 08, 2018 Opening up the opaque peer review with Sam & Daniela from PREreview
Peer review is opaque and a large frustration for many scientists. Preprints are becoming more prevalent, but we still need to assess them critically. We shed light on some of the problems and solutions to this with preprint peer review clubs. PREreview is a platform to record these journal club conversations so that the rest of the world can benefit from them too.
43 min
March 28, 2018 09 How collaborating with robots will speed up biomedical research with Oskari Vinko
Oskari and Flavio talk about how robots can help humans in biomedical research. UniteLabs is building lab automation systems to automate boring tasks so the highly trained researchers can focus on more high-level activities. We also talk about other bottlenecks in biomedical research and revisit some old friends from previous podcast guests.
47 min
March 02, 2018 08 How the Gates Foundation is reshaping how science gets published with Ashley Farley
What does Open Research mean for the Gates Foundation? Why does it matter? How are they implementing it? We speak with Ashley Farley who is in charge of those initiatives at the Gates Foundation.
38 min
February 13, 2018 07 Translating Science from Academia and the Future of Medicine with Prof. Ernst Hafen
In the 2nd part of the interview with Prof. Ernst Hafen we learn about how the birth of the Bio-Technopark Schlieren shows that if innovative entrepreneurs come together with great scientists, magic can happen.
We also learn about a big bottleneck in translating science from academia into startups and how
the future of medicine is personal.
18 min
February 07, 2018 06 Speeding up biomedical research by sharing protocols with Lenny Teytelman
Lenny is the founder and CEO of protocols.io, where scientists can freely share scientific protocols with each other. Similarly to github, others can then try them out in their own lab, comment on them, improve them or fork them. This leads to many benefits for both the original author as well as the scientists who get access to new protocols. 11,000 scientists are already signed up and more are joining each day.
39 min

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In this podcast, entrepreneur and angel investor Flavio Rump discusses the biggest bottlenecks and the future of biotech by speaking with some of the sharpest, most innovative minds in biotechnology…