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Aug 3, 2026
Nick Myerberg, Partner & Head of AI at Braidwell on AI's Next Era in Drug Discovery
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Rahul ChaturvediHOST
For listeners who've only really followed the headlines, I'd love if you could walk us through the actual history here of, let's say, the first wave of AI-native biotechs, AlphaFolds, the enormous funding that followed, and from where you sit now, what did that first generation actually promise? And then I'd obviously love to talk about what's different this time around.

Nick MyerbergGUEST
And I think it's really easy to look at AI for biology and say that it began in recent memory.

Nick MyerbergGUEST
I think biology really spent more than a century creating representations and doing calculations that made a difference.

Nick MyerbergGUEST
You can go back to the early 1900s and look at people like Darcy Thompson, Fisher, Wright, Haldane, Lotka and Volterra doing modeling for ecology and see the early seeds of people trying to produce this computational revolution in, at that time, kinds of biology that were very far from the cell.

Nick MyerbergGUEST
Even more recently, if you look to the 60s through the 80s, we had this massive focus in computational biology and drug discovery in particular.
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Rahul ChaturvediHOST
Is that the postmortem? Is that we couldn't tell a good model from a bad one? And so capital flowed towards whoever's demo was the most powerful?