Ron Alfa

1/ Spatial transcriptomics is among the richest view of human biology that we have: 18,963 genes mapped at subcellular resolution.

It's also almost never collected outside of research settings.

So we trained a foundation model to generate it from a clinical H&E image alone.

Meet TARIO-2. 🧵

noetik.blog/p/tario-2-a-wh…

Discovery can be verified in the lab, but clinical development is only verified in patients.

a very high level of integrity is required when building companies that work adjacent to patients. this is very different than standards of sv tech startups. not everyone understands this.

ai x bio companies using frontier ai to build frontier bio ai = [ ai x bio ]^2

We ran a pipeline in a person team at Recursion in 2021 to start the oncology work. Pre-LLM we could execute quickly outsourcing at scale - the models will make this much more efficient. But the game changer was scaled biological insights from the platform, this is still the gap.