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SynBioBeta Speaker

Moira Gunn

Tech Nation + BioTech Nation

Host

Dr. Moira Gunn is perhaps best known as the host of BioTech Nation podcast, a regular segment of the public radio program, Tech Nation, which airs weekly on NPR affiliates. A former NASA computer scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn is also the Founder and Director of Bioentrepreneurship at the University of San Francisco. Among her recognitions, the National Science Board awarded her its Public Service Award to the Individual for “increasing the Public Understanding of Science and Engineering”. In 2025, Dr. Gunn received the SynBioBeta Lifetime Achievement Award.

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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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