97. Ron Alfa, CEO of NOETIK, on Biology as a Search Problem

Once a Scientist by Nick Edwards

Aug 18, 202646:13Science & Medicine

Ron is Co-Founder and CEO of NOETIK, a next generation precision oncology company using multimodal foundation models pre-trained on large-scale human tumor data to discover cancer therapeutics. He holds an MD and PhD fro...

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