ML Researcher in BioAI (Pretraining Lead) and a (former?) Physicist
San Francisco
Joined September 2025
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We are excited to announce that @nvidia has committed to an investment in @PrimaMente.
Built upon years of close collaboration, this investment deepens our partnership and strengthens our ambition to tackle complex diseases.
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS remain among medicine’s greatest unmet needs. Making real progress requires global coordination around data, foundation models, and experimental and clinical validation.
We are grateful to @nvidia for their commitment and look forward to deepening our partnership as we pursue breakthrough discoveries for these diseases, and beyond.
tempted to set a reminder to post in 5 years:
alzheimers = solved
Today we're launching the Alzheimer's Translation Challenge, a global AI competition to discover new therapeutic hypotheses for Alzheimer's disease.
At its core is a new 150M cell atlas of neurons, astrocytes, and microglia across different genetic backgrounds under combinatorial perturbations, with multi-modal readouts.
The data will be made available through the AD workbench, Hugging Face and Prima Mente's modeling platform.
The challenge is led by @PrimaMente and @AlzData in collaboration with @nvidia, @huggingface, @nebiusai, Talisman Therapeutics, @UltimaGenomics, @cellanome, @PrimeIntellect, @GoodfireAI, and @boltz_bio.
In 1906, Alois Alzheimer described a new disease of the brain. After 120 years of progress, we still don't fully understand what drives this disease. We want to change that.
Participants will use the dataset to build AI models, assessed through a series of evals from general benchmarks to more complex tasks.
Top teams will be shortlisted, and their experimental hypotheses tested in Prima Mente's wet lab. Teams win when their hypotheses demonstrate the predicted molecular and functional effect.