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Elisabeth Brier
Forbes
Deputy Editor
Elisabeth Brier is a Deputy Editor at Forbes, where she leads editorial strategy and operations for some of the publication’s most prominent franchises, including the AI 50, Midas List, and Next Billion Dollar Startups. Based in Los Angeles, she focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, venture capital, and sustainability, shaping narratives around the world’s most influential founders, investors, and technologies. She also leads Forbes’ major climate editorial initiatives, including the Sustainability Leaders list and summit, bringing together global leaders across climate and frontier innovation.
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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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