Vineeta Agarwala

Jun 4, 2024 | a16z.com | Vineeta Agarwala |Kris Tatiossian |Olivia Webb |Carolyn Jasik

Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, founder and CEO of knownwell, joins Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they talk about the value of obesity medicine practitioners, patient-centric medical homes, and how Brooke believes the metabolic health space will evolve over time. This is the second episode in our series on the science and supply of GLP-1s.

May 30, 2024 | a16z.com | Vineeta Agarwala |Jonathan Lai |Jack Soslow |Luke Timmerman

“I remember reading an article…where they measured the efficiency of locomotion for all the species on planet Earth. And the condor won. Humans came in about a third of the way down the list, which was not such a great showing for the crown of creation. But somebody had the imagination to test the efficiency of a human riding a bicycle. Human on the bicycle blew away the condor, all the way off the top of the list.

Dec 12, 2023 | a16z.com | Vijay Pande |Kris Tatiossian |Olivia Webb |Vineeta Agarwala

Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health. In this episode, Pranav and Vijay discuss a future with generalist medical AI. This is the idea of a medical AI that isn’t narrowly tailored to one specific task. As Pranav notes in the episode, the research and development process in medical AI development so far has been siloed by specialty, but generalist medical AI exists outside those siloes.

Nov 1, 2023 | a16z.com | Vineeta Agarwala |Jorge Conde |Bryan Faust |Olivia Webb

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” —Robert A. Heinlein, American science-fiction writer and aeronautical engineerModern medicine is full of awe-inspiring progress, but also many humbling limitations.

Sep 26, 2023 | a16z.com | Vijay Pande |Kris Tatiossian |Olivia Webb |Vineeta Agarwala

Today’s episode features Aviv Regev, PhD, the Head and Executive VP of Genentech Research and Early Development, and founding co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas. She is joined by Vijay Pande of Bio + Health. Together, Aviv and Vijay talk about how Aviv’s love of both abstractions and details led her to biology, how CRISPR really set the field into motion, and how AI could transform the process of biological and medical discovery.