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SynBioBeta Speaker

Anthony Costa

Director, Digital Biology

NVIDIA

May 2026, SynBioBeta

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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.

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