Why does drug discovery still take 12 years? A conversation with Dr. Sarah Chen.

Why does drug discovery still take 12 years? A conversation with Dr. Sarah Chen.

Why does drug discovery still take 12 years? A conversation with Dr. Sarah Chen.

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The history of R&D timelines, why most AI tools fail at the last mile, and what a genuinely accelerated discovery pipeline actually looks like from the inside.

About the podcast

Dr. Sarah Chen, co-founder and CEO of Synth, joins the podcast to discuss the structural reasons why scientific discovery timelines have barely improved in 50 years — and why most AI tools are solving the wrong part of the problem.


Chapters

Timeline

Topic

Duration

0:00

Introduction - the timeline problem in numbers

4m

4:12

Why computational results don't always survive the lab

8m

12:40

The AI ↔ lab feedback loop that changes everything

10m

22:55

What Synth gets wrong - an honest assessment

6m

29:10

The future: what 5-year discovery timelines unlock

13m


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Join 15+ deep tech companies discovering breakthrough drugs, materials, and proteins in months instead of years.

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Join 15+ deep tech companies discovering breakthrough drugs, materials, and proteins in months instead of years.

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