Ex-DeepMind researcher founds Polyphron to model human tissue

After a decade at Google/DeepMind, researcher vqctran left to co-found Polyphron with Matthew Osman and Fabio Zbinden, aiming to use frontier models and reinforcement learning to model and recreate human biological tissue.

2026-09-17 ~ 2026-09-18 · 3 related posts

• Ex-DeepMind researcher co-founds Polyphron to train RL models that grow human tissue — vqctran · 2026-09-17
• Ex-DeepMind researcher of 10 years leaves Google to co-found Polyphron for tissue biology frontier models — vqctran · 2026-09-17
• DeepMind vet vqctran leaves after 10 years to co-found biology AI startup Polyphron — infoxiao · 2026-09-18