Stanford's Polly Fordyce is building the world's largest protein-function dataset to power AI drug design
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-09
Stanford professor Polly Fordyce and her team are building the world's largest repository of high-quality data on how proteins actually function, to train AI models that can design new antibodies, enzymes and medicines. Using microfluidic devices developed in her lab, they can run thousands of protein experiments in parallel. Fordyce says mature technologies and available compute make this feasible for the first time, with potential impact across medicine, materials and climate solutions.
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