Raising Health

Evolving Biotechnologies with Olga Troyanskaya

Vijay Pande, Kris Tatiossian, Olga Troyanskaya, and Olivia Webb

Posted October 24, 2023

Note: This episode was recorded as part of the Bio Eats World podcast, now known as Raising Health.

Olga Troyanskaya, PhD, a professor in the department of computer science at Princeton and Deputy Director for Genomics at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Biology, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health.

Together, they talked about Olga’s background and how she got involved in genomics, as well as how evolving biotechnologies have improved scientists’ ability to see different views of the cell. They also discussed social determinants of health, and how, in the future, studies of genomics and SDoH might pave the way to treatment options.