AI’s Role in Democratizing Biomedical Innovation

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is advancing AI-driven biomedical research with the Virtual Cell project. By leveraging VAST Data’s scalable platform, they empower researchers to simulate cells, eradicate diseases, and unlock scientific breakthroughs, all while simplifying access to high-performance AI infrastructure for the broader community.

Industry Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Our vision for the virtual cell model effort that we're doing is focused around making it that we can actually create a virtual cell that can be used in place of that which empowers researchers so they don't have to be tied to a wet lab or some situation where it's complex and difficult to work on it. Data is absolutely the key to making all this work. LLMs at scale are the biggest data consumers there are. So having horsepower in our GPU cluster along with VAST Data and the tooling that they provide and are continuing to grow is absolutely key.

Jennifer Kennedy
Director of AI/ML & Data Engineering, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative