AI Agents for Biomedical Discovery: Specialized Builds and General Methods
Stanford AI Lab, Genentech
In this talk, I’ll share our explorations on building AI Agents for biomedical discovery, focusing on perturbation design, spatial transcriptomics, and cell imaging. Beyond the scientific aspects, I’ll also discuss the technical depth of the agents we’ve built—ranging from tool-use agents and context engineering to computer use, calibration guarantees, and reinforcement learning.