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Oct 2023
23m 44s

Evolving Biotechnologies with Olga Troya...

Andreessen Horowitz, a16z Bio + Health
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Olga Troyanskaya, a professor in the department of computer science at Princeton and Deputy Director for Genomics at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology in NYC, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health. 
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