From Code to Cure: AI’s Expanding Role in Biotech
Last Updated on April 14, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Roberto Iriondo
Originally published on Towards AI.
At Google Cloud Next ’25 in Las Vegas, biotech leaders from GenBio AI, Freenome, Earli, and Isomorphic Labs joined a panel discussion titled From Code to Cure: AI for Biotech Startups. Moderated by Scott Penberthy of Google Cloud, the session explored how AI is accelerating drug discovery, advancing diagnostics, and transforming R&D across the life sciences. Speakers shared their perspectives on generative design, multimodal data integration, synthetic biology, and the growing role of foundation models in reshaping the biotech landscape.
What does it mean to bring AI into biology — not just for optimization, but as a fundamental shift in how we understand and engineer life itself?
That question grounded the panel at Google Cloud Next ’25, where leaders from Freenome, GenBio AI, Earli, and Isomorphic Labs shared how they’re using AI to solve long-standing bottlenecks in biotech R&D. Moderated by Scott Penberthy, the panel featured:
Le Song, CTO and Co-Founder, GenBio AIJimmy Lin, CSO, FreenomeCyriac Roeding, CEO, EarliSergei Yakneen, CTO, Isomorphic Labs
The central theme: AI isn’t just making things faster or cheaper. It’s making the impossible possible.
Le Song emphasized the need for a new class of biological foundation models. Historically, machine learning in biology has focused on highly… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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