Vega Shah
@dr_alphalyrae
life sciences & healthcare @NVIDIA | trained as a scientist from @JGI, @UW, @UCBerkeley | building community @TechBi0 | views are all mine
Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ nature.com/articles/s4422…
The top three models for our Virtual Cell Challenge will win prizes valued at $100,000, $50,000, and $25,000. How can you get started?
Dropped the Virtual Cell Challenge Primer on HF. We are shipping transformers support for STATE (the SOTA model for predicting perturbation response) very soon!
Nature research paper: The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years go.nature.com/3Gw3J6U
The rise of China’s pharmaceutical industry from 2015–2024 nature.com/articles/d4157… This new article analyses the growth in drug innovation in China, the underlying environmental factors and strategic trends such as the outlicensing of assets originating in Chinese companies
We traveled to DC to talk to Congressional Staffers about the impact of @NIH @NIBIBgov funding. It enables us to develop synthetic biology tools to advance cell & genetic medicines for patients in need. REPOST to deliver the message that SCIENCE saves lives & makes America great!
NEW from me @statnews: We've learned that DeepMind is going to fund CASP, the protein structure competition that brought Google DeepMind's #AlphaFold to prominence (and a Nobel Prize), as its NIH funding runs out. More: statnews.com/2025/07/21/cas…
AtlasAgent: Vision language model and Agent-guided Framework for Evaluation of Atlas-scale Single-cell Integration biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
we're recruiting for a scientist to join our Talent team @newlimit this is a unique chance for a scientist to move into the business & ops side of biotech. we imagine recent PhDs & postdocs looking to transition away from the bench are great candidates. you'll be working very…
I am super stoked about this - @TechBi0 is coming to India with the first event happening in Bengaluru with local group BioBuilders 🇮🇳 🧬
Bangalore-based 🧬 bio-founders 🛠️ open-source builders 🧪 researchers 🧠 thinkers, investors, and tinkerers . ... this is the event for you! Come hang out on 26 July! Reach out to @Vaibhavsai17 for more details Sign up @ lu.ma/cz1vbkrk
An A.I. model that predicts the course of Alzheimer's disease nature.com/articles/s4146…
📢📢 "La-Proteina: Atomistic Protein Generation via Partially Latent Flow Matching" Fully atomistic. Partially latent. Structurally precise. Entirely generative. w/ @tomasgeffner*, @DidiKieran*, et al. 📜 Project page & paper: research.nvidia.com/labs/genair/la… 🧵 Thread below... (1/n)
Check out La-Proteina, our new model for all-atom structure generation at scale! Was a very fun project to work on with @tomasgeffner and the rest of the team. Two things I am particularly excited about in 🧵 1/n
Presenting La-Proteina! A new model for scalable, all-atom protein design 🧬 Backbone + sequence + side-chains, indexed and unindexed atomistic motif scaffolding, scalable up to 800 residues, and more… A thread 🧵
is anyone successfully using ar/vr glasses for a laboratory use case?
