NVIDIA's Stacie Calad-Thomson discusses how AI is changing the physical world of biopharma - from automated labs to surgical devices and other robots
She believes we are in the early days of this type of work and that it will empower scientists, physicians and caregivers to focus on more important work that really matters.
Aug 12
Bay Area based Universal Brain has developed a wearable dry EEG (now 501(k) cleared by FDA) that aims to measure task based biomarkers of brain function for psychiatry
Founder and CEO Kazu Okuda describes the effort to make this technology a reality. He says they have already published evidence that the device can measure the onset of and predict the remission of depression, and the ultimate goal is to get it to a place one day where it can help predict response to therapies.
Aug 10
Curve Biosciences is creating a DNA based blood test to detect and measure chronic illness throughout the body - the first programs will focus on liver disease
CEO Ritish Patnaik explains the challenges of understanding DNA in the blood for people who have chronic disease, and the idea behind the company's 'Whole Body Atlas' to make sense of it. Curve will start by creating products that track when cirrhosis transitions to its end stages and cancer, and MASH Monitoring.
May 1
From Germany: InnovationLab in Heidelberg aims to spur collaboration between science and industry. It offers entrepreneurs help with labs space, tech transfer, and incubation
InnovationLab Cluster Manager Reza Taale describes all the help InnovationLab can offer. While life scienes is a newer offering, it is one of the strongest focuses today given all of the world class research institutions that exist in the area. InnovationLab hopes to help turn more of the science coming out of them into real world therapies.
Apr 29
From Germany: Heidelberg University has created a unique platform, hei_INNOVATION, that is meant to encourage its students to become entrepreneurs and then help them achieve their goals along the way
Raoul Haschke, Head of hei_INNOVATION, explains the program and walks us around a workspace that is made available to the students to participate.
Apr 28
SLAS 2026: Atinary showed BiotechTV the "Self Driving Lab" it has created in the Seaport that integrates machine learning into the experiment design and optimization process to accelerate science
Co-Founder & CEO Hermann Tribukait explains how integrating AI, robotics, and human expertise can make drug discovery happen at a new speed.
Feb 10
BiotechTV visited South San Francisco based Noetik and saw how they are digitizing tumor samples and using AI to sort through the complexity of cancer biology for drug discovery
Co-Founder and CEO Ron Alfa walked BiotechTV's Ryan Flinn through how machine learning is taking cancer cell biology beyond the microscope.
Oct 30, 2025
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