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Determining Virtual Cell Impact for Drug Discovery - with Kristóf Szalay and Gerold Csendes of Turbine

aired Aug 17, 2026 · 41.0m
Signal
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Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig51.7
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty80.2
Summary

Welcome, everyone, to the Emerge AI and Business Podcast. Turbine's Virtual Lab is a software platform that simulates cellular biology at large scale, enabling biopharma teams to run millions of virtual experiments, prioritize wet lab work, and strengthen preclinical decision packages across discovery programs.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of it's, model, virtual, including: Today's guest is Christel Zalé, CTO and co-founder of Turbine, and Gerald Shendez, scientist at Turbine.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Turbine's Virtual Lab is a software platform that simulates cellular biology at large scale, enabling biopharma teams to run millions of virtual experiments, prioritize wet lab wor
  2. 02Christoph and Gerald join us on today's episode to separate what virtual cell models can reliably do today from where the field is still catching up and to walk through how pharma
  3. 03Build a model that predicts what happens inside a cell when you knock down a gene or add a drug, and suddenly early-stage discovery gets faster, cheaper, and more predictable
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