Patrick Kidger: the buried lede in RN's announcement is regulatory, tox and GMP manufacturing
PatrickKidger · x · 2026-10-21
Consolidated summary of Patrick Kidger's thread on RN's announcement (multiple fragments, one thread): what excites him most isn't the AI but the regulatory, tox, and GMP manufacturing angle — hard problems, yet the regulatory landscape is shifting (e.g., Australian HREC approval pathways cutting paperwork vs TGA). On AI strategy he highlights two points: multimodal joint reasoning over proteins, genes, text, and radiology images is the clear step-change using existing data; and large-scale genomic data plus 'no humans required' design loops mirror the proven success in protein design (antibodies, enzymes), extendable to genomic modelling and AI-designed phages. TLDR: splashy announcement, but he's encouraged there's fire beneath the smoke.
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