Andy Lee: Huggingface AI /ML, Parkinson Research, Mitochondria, Longevity | Learning with Lowell 197

June 30, 2023

Andy Lee of Vincere Biosciences. “Our innovative pipeline consists of small molecules designed to boost mitophagy, with the potential to become the first-ever medicines capable of slowing or stopping Parkinson’s disease and other age-related conditions.”

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro 

00:13 Bio at AI events, and AI at bio events

02:10 AI at Vincere Biosciences

04:25 Developing inhouse vs open source 

05:45 Huggingface / heart of closed systems

06:25 Mark Zuckerberg on Open source ML / AI systems

08:45 OpenAI to ClosedAI / Elon Musk

10:54 Sharing  / not sharing the weights 

12:00 Mark Zuckerberg  / open source benefit 

14:30 What is Huggingface / where he goes 

17:30 ChatGPT, Huggingface, Nvidia GPUs, developing on laptop

19:00 Vincere Biosciences Building on prem or cloud computing

20:50 Security and building your own system 

22:30 Crypto compute translate to AI compute

24:30 Gold Mining

25:15 Vincere Biosciences explained 

27:40 Mice study results  

30:10 Therapeutic index  / Mitochondria / Basil mitophagy 

32:45 Teaser for results / significance of their research / Parkinson’s disease

35:00 Healthspan  / longevity 

38:31 Degrading at different rates

39:20 Increasing vs decreasing levels

41:50 Expect of effect on Parkinson’s / Michael J. Fox

44:30 Helping everyone

46:20 Shot, pill, often of taking 

46:50 Age of onset of Parkinsons 

48:40 Taking for life

49:55 Standing in the way of clinical trials  / how long until someone can use it

54:50 Sticking with it / Rare disease / orphan disease 

57:55 Michael J. Fox foundation 

01:01:16 Biobanking, data sharing

01:02:11 Michael J. Fox foundation data lake / 2030s

01:04:20 Learning from other failures 

01:06:40 Book recommendations / Creative Act 

01:12:15 Toxic consequence of boosting mitophagy / Salt and pepper fanQ

01:13:55 Fast tracking phase 1 to phase 2 drug / Fan Q

01:19:40 Staying up to date with Vincere Biosciences

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