Researcher joins Blank Bio to build foundation models for biology
michaelrzhang · x · 2026-09-25
Michael Zhang announces joining Blank Bio in San Francisco this week. He argues now is a great time to build foundation models for biology—for example, understanding gene expression data could better predict individual differences in drug response. Another data point in the ongoing talent flow toward bio-foundation-model startups in AI4Science.
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