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Vijay Pande

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Vijay Pande, PhD, is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on investments in biopharma and healthcare, and serves on the boards of Apeel Sciences, Asimov, BioAge, Ciitizen, Devoted Health, Freenome, Insitro, Omada, PatientPing, and Rigetti Computing. Pande is also an Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, where he continues to advise the Pande Lab, focused on tackling challenging problems in chemical biology, biophysics, and biomedicine.

As the founding investor of a16z’s Bio Fund, Pande leads the firm’s investments at the cross section of biology and computer science, including applications in computation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in healthcare; digital therapeutics; diagnostics; and other novel transformative scientific advances applied to industry that take bio beyond healthcare. Op-eds by Pande defining trends and issues in this emerging space have been published by The New York Times, Scientific American, and Forbes, among others.

Previously, Pande was the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Structural Biology and of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he led a team of researchers pioneering computational methods and their application to medicine and biology (resulting in over 300 publications, two patents, and two novel drug candidates). Pande was also concurrently the director of the Biophysics program at Stanford, where he led a team of more than 50 faculty members and propelled the program to the top in the country.

During his time at Stanford, Pande co-founded Globavir Biosciences, where he translated his research advances into a successful startup that aimed to discover cures for Dengue Fever and Ebola. Pande also founded the Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project for disease research, which pushed the boundaries of computer science techniques (distributed systems, machine learning, and exotic computer architectures) into biology and medicine, in both research as well as the development of new therapeutics.

Pande holds a BA in Physics from Princeton University and a PhD in Physics from MIT. He has been awarded the DeLano Prize in Computation; a Guinness World Record for Folding@Home; the American Chemical Society Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift Award; and was selected for MIT TR10. In his teens, Vijay was the first employee at video game startup Naughty Dog Software, maker of Crash Bandicoot.

Latest Posts

It’s Time to Heal: 16 Trends Driving the Future of Bio and Healthcare

by Vineeta Agarwala, Jorge Conde, Vijay Pande, and Julie Yoo
  • bio
  • apparently our stuff is 16 (or multiples of 16!)
  • coronavirus & the COVID-19 pandemic
  • end of year roundups
  • healthcare
  • when science becomes engineering

Evaluating AI in Bio: How to Know Whether it is Worth the Work

by Andy Tran and Vijay Pande
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • bio
  • AI in bio

Bio Eats World: The Cost Disease in Healthcare

by Marc Andreessen and Vijay Pande
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • bio
  • education
  • how innovation happens
  • economics
  • future of work
  • healthcare
  • history
  • when science becomes engineering

Solving Baumol’s Cost Disease, in Healthcare

by Vijay Pande
  • AI, machine & deep learning
  • bio
  • how innovation happens
  • economics
  • future of work
  • healthcare
  • innovation curves

From @vijaypande

Vijay Pande@vijaypande

Congratulations @rbhar90 and team on the major @deep_chem upgrade release! https://t.co/lhh8h7y3KA

Vijay Pande@vijaypande

Super thoughtful take from @cdixon on internet de-platforms. And very prescient — this first appeared in WIRED in 2019. https://t.co/P6oI3UDc9B

Vijay Pande@vijaypande

Looking forward to it Muneeb! https://t.co/N16jf0dFCB

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