SynBioBeta Speaker
Oliver Dodd
Nucleate
Co-Founder & Exec. Director
I’m passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, and community building in the life sciences. As PhD #92 from the Church Lab, I’ve always been fascinated by how cutting-edge research can be transformed into real-world impact. During my PhD, where I studied the genetic basis of controlled cell migration, I also co-founded Nucleate — a global nonprofit dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders. Now, as COO, I work full-time to grow our community, connect innovators with the right resources, and support our brilliant and diverse Leadership team
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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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