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SynBioBeta Speaker

Anthony Costa

NVIDIA

Director, Digital Biology

Anthony Costa leads NVIDIA's Digital Biology team, driving initiatives at the intersection of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and life sciences. His work focuses on accelerating drug discovery and biomedical research through the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform—an open-source framework for building and training deep learning models for applications spanning DNA, RNA, proteins, and molecular design.

At NVIDIA, Anthony has been instrumental in forging strategic partnerships that are reshaping computational biology, helping bring together domain experts in biology and medicine with AI engineers to build next-generation foundation models for drug discovery.

Prior to NVIDIA, Anthony spent nearly eight years at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he served as Founding Director of Sinai BioDesign—a needs-driven medical device incubator—and Chief Operating Officer of AISINAI, a clinical AI research group. He also held positions as Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and as a Computational Scientist, leading translational AI initiatives in healthcare.

Anthony holds a PhD from Purdue University and completed postdoctoral research at Northwestern University, where he built computational tools for non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and self-assembly. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.

Sessions Featuring

Anthony

This Year

Breakout Session

3:30 PM

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4:15 PM

AIxBIO

The New Computational Biology Stack: Models, Compute, and Experimental Feedback

AI is transforming biology into a fully integrated computational discipline, where discovery depends on the seamless interaction between models, compute infrastructure, and experimental systems. As foundation models for proteins, genomes, and cellular systems mature, the challenge is no longer prediction alone. It is building a unified stack that connects generative design, large-scale computation, and rapid experimental feedback into continuous learning loops. This session explores how the next generation of computational biology platforms is emerging at the intersection of cloud computing, GPU-accelerated modeling, advanced simulation, and high-throughput experimental infrastructure. Leaders across AI, biotech, and technology will discuss how tightly integrated design-build-test-learn cycles are reshaping therapeutic discovery, enabling adaptive model refinement, and accelerating the transition from in silico hypotheses to real-world biological outcomes.

Breakout Session

3:30 PM

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4:15 PM

AIxBIO

The New Computational Biology Stack: Models, Compute, and Experimental Feedback

AI is transforming biology into a fully integrated computational discipline, where discovery depends on the seamless interaction between models, compute infrastructure, and experimental systems. As foundation models for proteins, genomes, and cellular systems mature, the challenge is no longer prediction alone. It is building a unified stack that connects generative design, large-scale computation, and rapid experimental feedback into continuous learning loops. This session explores how the next generation of computational biology platforms is emerging at the intersection of cloud computing, GPU-accelerated modeling, advanced simulation, and high-throughput experimental infrastructure. Leaders across AI, biotech, and technology will discuss how tightly integrated design-build-test-learn cycles are reshaping therapeutic discovery, enabling adaptive model refinement, and accelerating the transition from in silico hypotheses to real-world biological outcomes.

Breakout Session

4:30 PM

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5:15 PM

AIxBIO

The AIxBIO Landscape: Mapping the Convergence of AI and Programmable Biology presented by NVIDIA

As artificial intelligence and programmable biology rapidly converge, a new generation of companies, tools, and research paradigms is emerging across the life sciences. From AI-driven protein design and generative genomics to autonomous laboratories and foundation models for biology, the AIxBIO ecosystem is evolving at unprecedented speed. In this session, NVIDIA will present a high-level overview of the AIxBIO landscape, highlighting key technological breakthroughs, emerging categories of companies, and the infrastructure powering the next wave of biological discovery. The discussion will explore how advances in compute, data, and machine learning are reshaping how we design molecules, engineer cells, and accelerate drug and materials discovery. This talk will provide a strategic map of the field and help frame where the most important opportunities and bottlenecks lie as AI begins to fundamentally transform the practice of biology.

Breakout Session

4:30 PM

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5:15 PM

AIxBIO

The AIxBIO Landscape: Mapping the Convergence of AI and Programmable Biology presented by NVIDIA

As artificial intelligence and programmable biology rapidly converge, a new generation of companies, tools, and research paradigms is emerging across the life sciences. From AI-driven protein design and generative genomics to autonomous laboratories and foundation models for biology, the AIxBIO ecosystem is evolving at unprecedented speed. In this session, NVIDIA will present a high-level overview of the AIxBIO landscape, highlighting key technological breakthroughs, emerging categories of companies, and the infrastructure powering the next wave of biological discovery. The discussion will explore how advances in compute, data, and machine learning are reshaping how we design molecules, engineer cells, and accelerate drug and materials discovery. This talk will provide a strategic map of the field and help frame where the most important opportunities and bottlenecks lie as AI begins to fundamentally transform the practice of biology.

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Fireside Chat

12:00 AM

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8:30 AM

Human Health

From Cells to Patients: Solving the Scale Mismatch in Virtual Biology

Drug discovery often measures biology at the cell level while interventions work at the tissue, organ, or whole-patient scale. This mismatch can make accurate cell-level predictions irrelevant in the clinic. This session dives into strategies to bridge that gap: multiscale modeling that nests single-cell dynamics within organ-level simulations, spatial transcriptomics that preserve context, and surrogate models that translate cell-level outputs into clinical biomarkers. Speakers will ask: how do we ensure virtual biology reflects not just what cells do in isolation, but how biology behaves in the real complexity of patients?

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