drug discovery

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 19, 2023 by Daphne Koller · across every show →

Everything said about drug discovery, oldest first

May 19, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Koller: Insitro uses agile for platform biology, but not drug discovery projects
“We have product managers who do scrums and do you know, these agile planning processes, and we apply that also to our platform development, even on the biology side. But at the same time, you know, drug discovery projects, which are years long, you don't do sc…”
Daphne Koller May 19, 2023 ▶ 38:28 No Priors Ep. 6 | With Daphne Koller from Insitro
May 19, 2023
Assertion Supported
Koller: 95% of all drug discovery programs fail
“If you look at the actual numbers of what makes drug discovery so expensive, it is the fact that 95% of drug programs fail. They just do not succeed.”
Daphne Koller May 19, 2023 ▶ 12:38 No Priors Ep. 6 | With Daphne Koller from Insitro
Feb 25, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yu: Virtual cell models will directly design disease-reversing drugs
“A big part of our future vision and roadmap is that we think there will be a moment where from a virtual cell model, a drug is spit out, and basically the drug will actually cause a healthy disease cell to become a healthy cell again.”
Johnny Yu Feb 25, 2025 ▶ 37:03 No Priors Ep. 103 | With Vevo Therapeutics and the Arc Institute
Nov 13, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wickramasekara: AI in scientific discovery will focus on augmentation over autonomy next 1-2 years
“While I would love for that to happen, and I'm maybe more optimistic on a longer time scale, we will get there. I think in the short term, I'm next one to two years, which, you know, already feels like an eternity in AI time. I'm a little bit more bullish on s…”
Sajith Wickramasekara Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 19:03 No Priors Ep. 140 | With Benchling Co-Founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
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