Vijay Pande — who left a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a “discovery” science to an “engineering” one, …

Vijay Pande — who left a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a “discovery” science to an “engineering” one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.

Source: TechCrunch