The Institute, which will drive industry-leading advances in AI and computational biology, focuses on building computational models that decode the language of cellular resilience.
Altos is excited to announce the formation of the Altos Institute of Computation (IoC), a new scientific institute to complement the Institutes of Science and the Institute of Medicine. The IoC's mission is to build computational models that decode the language of biological resilience at the cell, organ, and organism levels to achieve the Altos mission.
The IoC will enhance our ability to realize the Altos mission, reverse disease, and transform medicine by pioneering and leveraging computational innovations.
The IoC is integral to the deeply collaborative Altos research and translation ecosystem. Members of the IoC will work in focused teams to tackle profound biological questions and to build powerful data and computation platforms for discovering, designing, and understanding rejuvenation and reprogramming interventions.
The IoC is the culmination of a strategic plan to leverage Altos’ deep data resources and capitalize on the extraordinary advances in computation and machine learning to solve some of the most fundamental challenges in biological research and medicine – to program cells to a state of resilience and to restore the health of a tissue, organ, and organism.
“Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming the scientific ecosystem. I’m honored to direct a strategic center of excellence to help Altos focus, through state-of-the-art computation and unique datasets, on scientific and translational problems that are critical for our inspiring mission.”
-- Institute of Computation Director Hana El-Samad, PhD
As director of the IoC, Dr. Hana El-Samad brings extensive computational expertise and experience in scientific leadership. She is a known leader in computational biology, bioengineering, and control systems theory. The IoC will also benefit from the expertise of Dr. Thore Graepel, a recognized AI/ML expert who will serve as a Distinguished Fellow across the organization.
"We created the Institute of Computation with our deep computational talent to leverage the profound advances being made in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and help Altos unravel the intricate processes that govern cell health and resilience."
-- Altos CEO and Co-Founder Hal Barron, MD
Key team members include Founding Principal Investigators Morgan Levine, previously a ladder-rank professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and leader in aging, rejuvenation, and biological clocks, and Simone Bianco, a research staff member and manager of the Department of Functional Genomics and Cellular Engineering at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Both come to the IoC as Vice Presidents, continuing their leadership positions that started in their roles in the Institutes of Science. They are joined by Bikash Sabata, Vice President of Software and Platforms, who previously held leadership roles in technology and software development at Roche and BioImagene.
