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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…
Episodes
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Journal Club: Remodeling Oncogenic Transcriptomes with Ben Cravatt and Gene Yeo
Today marks the reboot of our journal club series, so you can look forward to seeing these episodes as part of our regular feed. This episode is a scientific…
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Health System Partnerships with Tommy Ibrahim
In this episode, a16z Bio + Health general partner Julie Yoo chats with Bassett Healthcare Network president and CEO Tommy Ibrahim. Together, they talk about…
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From the Archives: The Art & Science of Biology's Future with Jennifer Doudna
In this episode from the archives, originally published in February 2021, Jennifer Doudna, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for the co-discovery of CRISPR-Cas9…
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The Power of a Platform Company with Josh Mandel-Brehm
In this episode, Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, talks with Josh Mandel-Brehm, founding CEO of CAMP4. Together, they talk about how CAMP4…
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Culture and Company Building with Sam Corcos
In today's episode, Sam Corcos, CEO and cofounder of Levels Health, chats with Vijay Pande, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, about how Sam cofounded…
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Payments & Payors: Fintech's Role with Kurt Adams
In this episode, Kurt Adams, CEO of Optum Financial, chats with Daisy Wolf, investment partner for a16z Bio + Health, and Marc Andrusko, investment partner for…
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American Optimism with Joe Lonsdale
In this episode, Joe Lonsdale, founder and managing partner at 8VC, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, and Olivia Webb, editorial lead…
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Going to Market in Healthcare: B2C2B
In this episode, Julie Yoo, general partner, and Jay Rughani, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health, talk to Kate Ryder, founder and CEO of Maven; Amanda…
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Advancing the Field of Immunotherapeutics
In this episode, Kevin Parker, cofounder and CEO of Cartography Biosciences, joins Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, and Olivia Webb…
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Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging
In this episode, Kristen Fortney, cofounder and CEO of BioAge, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, and Olivia Webb, editorial lead, to…
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Payors and Providers Post-Pandemic
In this episode, Paul Keckley, the managing editor of the Keckley Report and a health policy expert, joins Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z, and Olivia Webb…
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Using AI to Take Bio Farther
Jakob Uszkoreit and Vijay Pande discuss all things AI — from Jakob's time at Google Brain, to how humans (and computers) process language, to Inceptive’s…
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Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
The last few months have seen dramatic—almost magical—applications of expert generative AI released to the public. (One of those applications, incidentally…
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Cultivated Meat: Challenges, Opportunities, Future
From initial inspiration in a sci-fi novel to the current state of “designing biology” in cultivated meat, SCiFi Foods cofounder and CEO Joshua March chats…
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AI is Here. Now What?
AI is here...so why isn't it in every clinic? Eric Topol talks with a16z Bio + Health general partners Vijay Pande and Vineeta Agarwala and editorial lead…
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Regulatory Trends in Telehealth
Perhaps no area of healthcare has undergone such a rapid shift as telehealth during the Covid pandemic. But as the world emerges from the public health…
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Demystifying DC: Opportunities for Collaboration
In this episode, a16z Bio+Health general partner Vineeta Agarwala spoke with Bobby Franklin, the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association…
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The Consolidated Drug Channel and Cash-Pay Drugs
What’s up with the drug channel? Julie Yoo, a general partner at a16z Bio+Health, joins Adam Fein, the CEO of Drug Channels Institute, and Olivia Webb, the…
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Bio x Games: Is a Fun, Therapeutic Game Possible?
Can a game be both fun and therapeutic? Vijay Pande, the first employee at Naughty Dog Software and a current Bio+Health general partner at a16z, joins Jon…
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Carolyn Bertozzi and Degrading Drugs for Problematic Proteins
In Bio Eats World's Journal Club episodes, we discuss groundbreaking research articles, why they matter, what new opportunities they present, and how to take…
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Deploying AI Platforms to Identify Sepsis
On this episode, we discuss three recent papers out in Nature Medicine this week, all examining the deployment of Bayesian Health's AI platform in a clinical…
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Discovery, Translation, and the State of Bio Today
On this episode, we are taking a pulse-check on the state of the intersection between biology, healthcare, and technology with two scientists that sit at…
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Engineering an Epigenome Editor
On today’s episode we are discussing the results and implications of a recent study that describes the creation of a new set of tools to turn off or on any…
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Evolving Embodied Intelligence
On today’s episode, we are making the full arc from the theoretical and borderline philosophical to the applied. Let’s start with the theory: embodied…
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Building Digital Health's Github
Today’s episode is all about the history and future of infusing tech into healthcare with the goals of improving outcomes and lowering costs, and features one…
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The Genetic Testing (R)Evolution
Genetic testing is on the cusp of a major revolution, which has the potential to shift not just how we understand our risk for disease, but how we practice…
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The Problem with Urgent Care
When it comes to healthcare, the topic of how expensive it is and what we can do to lower costs is always top of mind. One area with particularly steep costs…
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Viral Genomes from A to Z
If there is one rule in biology, it is that there is an exception to every rule. This includes even the basic biochemistry of DNA, which was once thought to be…
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World’s largest supercomputer v. biology’s toughest problems
This episode was recorded in March of 2019 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Folding at Home, the distributed computing project for simulating protein…
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The Trials of Clinical Trials
On the path from scientific discovery to new drug, the clinical trial is a huge — and critical — hurdle. Clinical trials are themselves experiments, and to…
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The New Science of Cell Shape
They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but can you judge a cell by its shape? On this episode, host Lauren Richardson is joined by Maddison…
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Journal Club: Sleeping Under the Star-Shaped Cells
Neuroscientists have long been trying to determine what happens in the brain during sleep, but to date, they have overlooked a key player: astrocytes. These…
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The Power of Patient-Centric Healthcare
Today we are re-running an episode exploring a question that seems super straightforward, but that on closer examination reveals incredible complexity, and…
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Journal Club: Hunting the Eagle Killer
In 1994, 29 bald eagles were found dead at DeGray Lake in Arkansas. This mass mortality event kicked off a search for the culprit which has last over 25 years…
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Journal Club: Sourcing the Secrets of Climate Adaptation
Understanding how plants have adapted to natural climate change over millions of years provides a playbook of evolutionary strategies to help us prepare for…
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Evolution: Animals, Aliens, and Ourselves
The search for and conjecture about alien life has evolved, from science fiction to just plain science. On this episode, host Lauren Richardson talks to Arik…
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Journal Club: Bioengineering Birth... Again!
Today we are re-running a previous episode of Journal Club — our show where we curate breakthrough research and bridge paper to practice — in light of a recent…
Raising HealthSolving Medical Mysteries in the World of Rare Disease
In this conversation, Stanford Professor Euan Ashley—geneticist, cardiologist, author of the new book, The Genome Odyssey, and first co-chair of the…
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Journal Club: Taming the Taste for Blood
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on Earth and for millennia humans have tried to rid themselves of these disease-spreading pests, with shockingly little…
Raising HealthThe Theory of a Thousand Brains
In this episode, we talk with Jeff Hawkins—an entrepreneur and scientist, known for inventing some of the earliest handheld computers, the Palm and the Treo…
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Journal Club: Restoring a Reflex
In a healthy person, your body automatically adjusts blood pressure constantly, and this adjustment is governed by what’s called the baroreflex. However, a…
Raising HealthSea Turtle Medicine
Sea turtles occupy a very special biological niche in our world. And we still know relatively little about these creatures, one of the very few marine reptiles…
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Journal Club: Assembling an Egg
On this episode of the Bio Eats World Journal Club, we explore the very compelling question of whether we can use our understanding of developmental biology to…
Raising HealthThe Art and Science of Biology's Future
In this episode of Bio Eats World, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Doudna—winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for the co-discovery (with Emmanuelle Charpentier) of…
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Journal Club: Engineering Living Materials
To date, synthetic biology has been mainly focused on reproducing existing compounds and materials with biomanufacturing. Think of engineering yeast to produce…
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Value Versus Volume (in Healthcare)
The way we pay for healthcare in the US has long been by fee-for-service: per doctor visit, per test, per surgery, per hospital stay. But that system has led…
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Things That Make You Go Hmmmm in Healthcare
In this episode, we share an episode of the brand new a16z Live podcast feed called “It’s Time to Heal”—a live conversation on audio/drop in chat app Clubhouse…
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Journal Club: My Tick Teacher
Ticks are "master scientists of our skin," says our guest — Seemay Chou, Assistant Professor at University of California, San Francisco. On this episode of the…
Raising HealthMay I Have Your Insurance Card Again, Please?
There's been a lot of talk (including on this show!) about the many kinds of innovations and technologies changing healthcare delivery for clinicians and…
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Journal Club: Suppressing Superbugs
"Superbug" is shorthand for multi-drug resistant bacteria. Infections with superbugs are the most difficult to treat, because these bacteria have evolved ways…
Raising HealthFrom Junk DNA to an RNA Revolution
What the heck is "junk DNA"? In this episode, a16z General Partner Jorge Conde and Bio Eats World host Hanne Winarsky talk to Professor Rick Young, Professor…
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Journal Club: Slaying the Sleeper Cells of Aging
Today we are revisiting a topic and episode that was originally aired back when Journal Club was part of the a16z podcast. We are covering it again in light of…
Raising HealthThe Fundamental Principles of Reality
What are the fundamental principles that govern the physical world around us, and how did we get to them? In this episode, Bio Eats World hosts Hanne Winarsky…
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Journal Club: A Safer Psychedelic
Move over microdosing, there is a new approach to psychedelic medicine. Psychedelics — like LSD and psilocybin — are some of the most powerful drugs that…
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The Genetics of Risk
Genetic testing is on the cusp of a major revolution, which has the potential to shift not just how we understand our risk for disease, but how we practice…
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Journal Club: Synthetic Germs, Our Newest Weapon for Fighting Cancer
Immuno-oncology, which leverages the body's own immune system to fight cancer, is a true medical revolution. But to date, these therapies have only targeted…
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The Biology of Brain Organoids (or, Don't Call it a Brain in a Dish!)
For more on brain organoids and their many applications, check out this episode of Journal Club: "Modeling Mysterious Brain Structures." Host Lauren Richardson…
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Journal Club: Why do only some people get severe COVID-19?
One of the enduring mysteries of COVID-19 is why some people get a severe disease that can be fatal, whereas the majority experience a very mild or even…
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So You Wanna Build a Software Company in Healthcare?
Building a software company in healthcare is hard—and comes along with unique challenges no other entrepreneurs face. In this conversation, a16z bio general…
Raising HealthThe Machine That Made the Vaccine
A year ago, none of us would believe that mRNA vaccines would be a household name. And yet here we are, at the end of 2020, counting the days towards a vaccine…