Stacie Calad-Thomason is Head of BioPharma Labs and Manufacturing Business Development at NVIDIA. She has a PhD in Chemistry from UC Irvine and a B.A. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley. Topics &amp; Timecodes: Physical AI Tools (Omniverse, Cosmos, Isaac, Groot) [04:46] Lab Automation Bottlenecks [06:20] Simulation vs Physical AI in Biology [09:42] Stacy&#x27;s PhD Journey &amp; Serendipitous Discovery [13:21] Transition from Academia to GSK Industrial R&amp;D [19:15] Early AI Adoption in Drug Discovery (ADAM Consortium) [23:57] Efficiency as Career Motivation [27:14] Leadership at Atomwise During COVID [29:02] Biosymetrics &amp; Phenomics Work [33:31] Vision for AI Scientists [35:11] AI Impact on Research Workflows [38:09] Career Advice: Perseverance, Adaptability &amp; Skill Breadth [41:10]

95. Stacie Calad-Thomson, Head of BioPharma Labs and Manufacturing BD at NVIDIA, on AI as an endless collaborator

Once a Scientist

Anybody that has a PhD, I know that they've got some grit and some perseverance, and they're capable of learning, right? That's what I see in others when I see, you know, those letters behind a name. I don't use my PhD on a daily basis now. I'm not doing organic chemistry reactions. I have the capacity to learn and understand and ask questions that help me learn something new about what other people are doing, though, and I use that in my job every day.

This is the Once a Scientist podcast. I'm Nick Edwards. We're back with new episodes, so keep an eye out and subscribe to the podcast if you haven't already. I am super excited to have Stacie Calad-Thomson on the podcast. Stacie is an OG in the AI life sciences space. She's the Global Business Development Lead for Pharma Labs and Manufacturing at NVIDIA, if you've ever heard of NVIDIA.

And so, Stacie, thanks so much for taking the time to come on. I'm excited to chat with you. Yeah, thank you for inviting me. Yeah, of course. So, what is it that you do at NVIDIA? Yeah. So, I've been at NVIDIA for two years now. I got to join in this awesome role in business development and light sciences, where I've been working across all pharma and biotech,

and really understanding sort of how people are using AI, how we can help them accelerate some of their models, some of their training, some of their inference. And ultimately, hopefully, that drives more compute somewhere wherever they're consuming it. So, recently, I took on a new role just focusing on labs and manufacturing. We see this as really an emerging area of growth for us.

95. Stacie Calad-Thomson, Head of BioPharma Labs and Manufacturing BD at NVIDIA, on AI as an endless collaborator

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95. Stacie Calad-Thomson, Head of BioPharma Labs and Manufacturing BD at NVIDIA, on AI as an endless collaborator

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.