HIBT Lab! Immunai: Noam Solomon

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

According to the CDC, 6 in 10 adults in the U.S. have a chronic disease like cancer or diabetes. Meanwhile, the process for discovering new drug treatments is critically expensive and inefficient. About 90% of drug candidates fail to gain FDA approval; the average cost to develop a new drug is over $1 billion; and testing can take over 10 years.

Noam Solomon is on a mission to change this. His company, Immunai, is using artificial intelligence to create an atlas of the human immune system.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Guy talks with Noam about how Immunai’s immune system mapping is accelerating the development of new personalized drug therapies. Plus, Noam shares how Immunai’s culture of ‘not knowing’ drives scientific innovation.

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0:36.0	So, if we've learned anything from our experience with COVID over the past few years,
0:41.0	yet that we still have a lot to learn about how the human body fends off in fights disease.
0:47.0	My guess today is that I'm mission to change that.
0:50.0	In 2018, Noam Solomon and his co-founders launched a company called Immunei
0:55.0	and it's working to create what's essentially an atlas of the human immune system.
1:00.0	There are thousands of clinical trials that take place each year around the world
1:04.0	where people with certain diseases and conditions are given experimental medicine.
1:09.0	Immunei partners with hospitals and universities
1:12.0	to gather cellular level data from those clinical trials.
1:16.0	The company's massive computing power and artificial intelligence programs
1:21.0	then analyze that data, which can then help figure out which experimental treatments work
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