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Raising Health
A myriad of AI, science, and technology experts explore the real challenges and enormous opportunities facing entrepreneurs who are building the future of health. Raising Health, a podcast by a16z Bio + Health, dives deep into the heart of biotechnology and healthcare innovation. Join veteran company builders, operators, and investors Vineeta Agarwala, Julie Yoo, and Jorge Conde, along with distinguished guests like Mark Cuban, Greg Verdine, Fei-Fei Li, and Suchi Saria, as they explore the…
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- Raising Health
The Science and Supply of GLP-1s with Carolyn Jasik
Carolyn Jasik, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Omada Health, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health. As Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound…
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The Intersection of Biotech x High Tech with Vineeta Agarwala
Vineeta Agarwala, MD, PhD, joins Luke Timmerman's The Long Run podcast on stage at the Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference. They discuss everything…
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AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
Kim Branson, PhD, SVP and Global Head of AI and Machine Learning for GSK, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they talk about…
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Unleashing CAR T with Carl June
In this episode, Carl June, MD, pioneering immunologist and oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z Bio +…
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Longevity as a Health Asset with Tom Hale
Tom Hale, CEO of ŌURA, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner, and Daisy Wolf, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they talk about the potential of…
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The Power of Drug Discovery with Philip Tagari
Philip Tagari, Chief Scientific Officer of insitro, joins Vijay Pande, founding general partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they discuss the transformative…
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AI-Enabled Continuity of Care with Ed and Todd Park
Vijay Pande, founding general partner of a16z Bio + Health, chats with the builders (and siblings) behind Devoted Health, Ed and Todd Park. The Park brothers…
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Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI with Vijay Pande and Julie Yoo
Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, come together to talk through the grand challenges facing…
- Raising Health
Adapting Biopharma to AI with Greg Meyers
Greg Meyers, EVP and Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb (or BMS), joins a16z Bio + Health general partner Jorge Conde. Together, they…
- Raising Health
Behind the Buy: Payors and Providers on AI Adoption
As any healthcare founder knows, it can be difficult to get into a room with the executives making purchase decisions for payors and providers—so we’re…
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Biotech Revolution with Software Engineering Daily
"There is a revolution unfolding in biotech. The confluence of new biological methods like CRISPR, virtually unlimited computational capacity, and machine…
- Raising Health
Dark Genome Hunting with Rosana Kapeller and Marty Taylor
Rosana Kapeller, CEO of Rome Therapeutics, and Marty Taylor, physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School, join Vineeta Agarwala, general partner, and Bryan…
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DNA as Data Storage with Vijay Pande
Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, dives deep with a16z Podcast host Steph Smith into the potential of DNA as a data storage mechanism. This…
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The Most Interesting Healthcare Companies You've Never Heard Of with Julie Klapstein
Julie Klapstein, founding CEO of Availity, long-time healthcare executive, and a16z Bio + Health's newest advisory partner, joins Julie Yoo, general partner at…
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CRISPR by Design with Benjamin Oakes
Scribe Therapeutics cofounder and CEO Benjamin Oakes, PhD, joins a16z Bio + Health founding general partner Vijay Pande. In this episode, Benjamin traces his…
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Metrics for a Complex Machine with Josh Clemente
Josh Clemente, cofounder and president of Levels, joins Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Daisy Wolf, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health. In this…
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Transitioning From Gymnast to Investor with Aly Raisman
Former gymnast and current investor Aly Raisman joins general partner Julie Yoo and investment partner Daisy Wolf of a16z Bio + Health. In this episode, Aly…
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Finding PMF in Healthcare (After Tasting it Elsewhere) with Eren Bali and Max Cohen
Max Cohen, cofounder and CEO of Sprinter Health, and Eren Bali, founder and CEO of Carbon Health, join Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z Bio + Health…
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IRA, AI Regulation, and the Future with Joe Grogan
In this episode, Joe Grogan, a senior fellow at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and a former senior government official, joins…
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Drag & Drop Genome Editing
Today's episode features the CEO of Tome Biosciences, Rahul Kakkar, alongside John Finn, CSO of Tome. They are joined by Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z…
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Past, Present, and Future of AI with Vijay Pande
Bio Eats World is now Raising Health! Vijay Pande, founding partner of Bio + Health, is joined by Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, Aviv Regev, and Jakob Uszkoreit…
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Fireside Chat with Sean Duffy
Bio Eats World is now Raising Health! On this first episode of Raising Health, Sean Duffy, cofounder and CEO of Omada Health, joins Vijay Pande, founding…
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Generalist Medical AI with Pranav Rajpurkar
Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health. In this episode, Pranav and Vijay discuss a future with generalist medical AI…
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Gate Unveiling with Jordi Mata-Fink
Jordi Mata-Fink, PhD, cofounder of Gate Bioscience, joins Vineeta Agarwala and Ben Portney of a16z Bio + Health. In this episode, Jordi discusses how he and…
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How to Build an AI-Native Health Plan with Mario Schlosser
Mario Schlosser, cofounder, former CEO, and current President of Technology at Oscar Health, joins Julie Yoo of Bio + Health. The conversation explores how AI…
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Bridging AI, Ethics, and Consumer Trust with Miriam Vogel
Miriam Vogel, President and CEO of EqualAI, cohost of the podcast In AI We Trust?, and Chair of the National AI Advisory Committee, joins Vijay Pande of Bio +…
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Clinical Copilots: Augmenting Human Care with Suchi Saria
AI trailblazer Suchi Saria, in conversation with Vijay Pande, sheds light on the winding path that led her to launch Bayesian Health, a bold effort to infuse…
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The Worlds She Sees with Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li, PhD, Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, joins Bio +…
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Supercharging Discovery with Evan Feinberg
Evan Feinberg, PhD, founder and CEO at Genesis Therapeutics, joins Vijay Pande of Bio + Health. Together, they talk about how Evan’s work in the lab…
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Evolving Biotechnologies with Olga Troyanskaya
Olga Troyanskaya, a professor in the department of computer science at Princeton and Deputy Director for Genomics at the Flatiron Institute's Center for…
- Raising Health
CMO vs. CPO with Peter Shalek and Reena Pande
Peter Shalek, a Chief Product Officer, currently at Stellar Health and formerly at AbleTo, and Reena Pande, currently a strategic advisor and formerly the…
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Interpretability and the AI "Clear Box" with Surya Ganguli
Note that due to technical difficulties, the audio quality of this episode may vary. Surya Ganguli, PhD, an associate professor at Stanford University and a…
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AI Revolution with Daphne Koller
This episode is live from our recent AI Revolutionaries (AIR) conference. In this episode, Daphne Koller, founder and CEO at insitro and AI expert, chats with…
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When Quantity Becomes Quality with Aviv Regev
Today's episode features Aviv Regev, PhD, the Head and Executive VP of Genentech Research and Early Development, and founding co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas…
- Raising Health
Navigating the Future of AI with Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng, PhD, a distinguished authority in the field of AI, is known for founding DeepLearning.AI and multiple other ventures. He also co-founded and led…
- Raising Health
Unleashing CAR T with Carl June
Carl June, MD, an immunologist and oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, Carl and…
- Raising Health
Becoming a Partnership Pioneer with Dan Nomura
Dan Nomura is a distinguished professor at UC Berkeley and an Investigator at the Innovative Genomics Institute, specializing in Chemical Biology and Molecular…
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Wartime and Peacetime: Being a Leader with Ben Horowitz
In this exclusive conversation from the Bio + Health BUILD summit, founding partner Ben Horowitz sits down with general partner Jorge Conde. They discuss…
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Medical Education and AI with Lloyd B. Minor
Together, Lloyd and Vijay chatted about how AI could change the practice of medicine, and what the implications are for medical students now and in the future…
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The Path of a Healthtech CTO with Margaret McKenna
Together, Margaret and Julie chatted about Margaret’s background — and how she taught herself to program — her time at Devoted, and the advice she gives to…
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The AI-Flipped Clinic with Zak Kohane
Together, Vijay and Zak talked about having been through AI winters and hype cycles before, and why they think this time could be different. They also talked…
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Putting the Pro in Provider Networks with Dan Rosenthal
Dan Rosenthal, a provider network expert and the newest advisory partner for a16z Bio + Health, joins Julie Yoo, general partner. Together, they talk about the…
- Raising Health
The Exec Hiring Playbook with Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi
The holy grail of company building is finding product-market fit. But what most people don’t tell you is that once you’ve found it, product-market fit brings…
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Drugging the Undruggable with Greg Verdine
When Greg started out in science, he heard other researchers referring to certain targets as “undruggable.” In response, he’s devoted his life to drugging the…
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Forecasting Human Health with Jeffrey Kaditz
After his own health scare, Jeffrey got obsessed with how MRIs work—and decided that they were too unscientific to really track human health over time. In…
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Will AI Kill Us All? with Marc Andreessen
AI has the potential to save the world — that’s the thesis of Marc’s most recent article, linked below. This episode was recorded right after Marc published…
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AI, Innovation, and Regulatory Insights with Amy Abernethy
AI is not just a sci-fi concept anymore; it's being woven into the fabric of healthcare, revolutionizing everything from research to patient care. It has the…
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From Faculty to Founder: Building Startups from Academia
In this episode, taken from a live a16z event, Bio + Health general partner Vineeta Agarwala moderates a panel of UCSF faculty founders, including Michelle…
- Raising Health
Curing the Trust Problem with Mark Cuban
Today’s episode is with Mark Cuban, founder of multiple businesses, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, one of the sharks on Shark Tank, and cofounder of the Mark…
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The Founders Reinventing Healthcare with Fintech
Today’s episode is a cross-post with the a16z podcast. It features founders—Chris Severn, Florian Otto, Andrew Adams, Jade Chan, Jimmy Chen, and Fay…
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Adapting Biopharma to AI with Greg Meyers
Today’s episode is with Greg Meyers, EVP and Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb (or BMS). He is joined by a16z Bio + Health general…
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Healthcare x Fintech with Julie Yoo and David Haber
Healthcare payments are difficult, confusing, and opaque. But Julie and David discuss the ways that technology could change that for the better, and where they…
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Journal Club: Engineering Logic into CAR T Therapies with Robbie Majzner
In this episode, a16z Bio + Health investment partner Becky Pferdehirt chats with Robbie Majzner, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of…
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The Future of Cheese with Magi Richani
Today’s episode is with Magi Richani, founder and CEO of Nobell Foods. She is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Vijay Pande. Together, they talk…
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Reengineering Healthcare and Medicine with Technology with Vineeta Agarwala
This is a crossover episode with The Bioverge Podcast, hosted by Neil Littman. Neil is joined by Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health…
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Bio x American Dynamism with Katherine Boyle and David Ulevitch
Today’s episode is with a16z’s American Dynamism team: Katherine Boyle and David Ulevitch. Katherine is a general partner focused on national security…
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Shaping Channel Partnerships with Sean Duffy
Today’s episode is with Sean Duffy, cofounder and CEO of Omada Health. He is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Julie Yoo and investment partner Jay…
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Strategizing Channel Partnerships with Florian Otto
This week, we’re releasing two episodes about all things channel partnerships. Today’s episode is with Florian Otto, cofounder and CEO of Cedar. He is joined…
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AI and Actionable Insights for Drug Development with Daphne Koller
In this episode, Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of insitro—as well as the co-founder of Coursera, a MacArthur Award winner, and a former professor in the…