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🧬 Noam Solomon - Immunai - Part 3 | Deciphering the Book That is the Human Immune System | Building Immunai’s Team | The Importance of Single Cell Multi-Omics | Big Pharma & Dancing With Gorillas

34 min • 19 augusti 2024
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Part 3 of 4. 

My guest for this week’s episode is Noam Solomon, CEO and co-founder at Immunai, a pioneering biotech company that is comprehensively mapping and reprogramming the immune system with single-cell biology and AI to power new therapeutic discoveries, accelerate drug development, and improve patient outcomes. 

Prior to co-founding Immunai, Noam had a career in both industry and academia. Noam has a double PhD in math and computer science and served as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT and Harvard. Noam also worked as an algorithms developer, consultant, and head of data science in several high-tech companies in Israel. Noam's extensive background in math, computer science, AI, and machine learning gives him a unique depth of experience that founders can learn from.

Join us this week and hear about: 
  • How the human genome project gave us the alphabet to read the book that is the human immune system
  • Immunai’s philosophy of doing what's right even if they don’t know what they’re doing
  • Balancing a CEO’s naivete with being selective about who’s advise to take
  • What single cell multi-omics, the technology behind Immunai, really means
  • Why working with different pharma companies is like dancing with a gorilla

Please enjoy my conversation with Noam Solomon.

Timestamps: 
00:28 Intro
02:04 Episode starts, the human genome project and the alphabet used to read the book of the human immune system
05:10 Bringing an outsider's perspective to Immunai and their unique approach
08:07 Building the the Immunai team with both immunology and computer science experts who are not afraid to ask the stupid questions
12:10 Observing the hospital, pharma, AI landscape and how that shaped their philosophy of doing what's right even if they don’t know what they’re doing
19:00 Balancing both your naivete as a CEO with judging who’s advice to take
20:03 What is single cell multi-omics, the technology behind Immunai and what they learned from Netflix
24:44 How to embrace failure without creating a failure culture and other lessons learned from setting up their first lab
28:22 “Do you know how you dance with a gorilla?” and how to work with different pharma companies
33:05: Outro

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