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Connor Tsuchida

Azalea Therapeutics

Scientific Co-founder, VP, R&D

Connor Tsuchida is a Scientific Co-Founder and the Vice President, Research & Development at Azalea Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering in vivo genome editing therapies with cell and genomic precision. He earned his PhD in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and UCSF, where he trained under Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna. His doctoral research focused on developing novel technologies to enhance the efficacy and safety of CRISPR-Cas genome editing in T cells -- work that was foundational to the founding of Azalea Therapeutics. Connor has been recognized by Forbes 30 under 30, the San Francisco Business Times 40 under 40, and the Seibel Scholarship for Bioengineers.

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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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