CEO & Co-Founder @eigentx. Previously VP Eng + Head of Lab Automation @notablelabs. Bioengineer, foodie, pianist, photographer, gamer.
San Mateo, CA
Joined March 2011
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Transon Nguyen retweeted
📅 Join us at #AACR25 on Sun, Apr 27, 2-5 PM, Section 16, Board 5 (Poster #338) for an in-depth look at how our priming platform expands the patient population & improves efficacy of ADCs and RLTs via selective antigen upregulation to tackle heterogeneity! abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/2…
Had a great conversation with @nabilwrites on his podcast, Discovery Engines! We talked about Eigen's priming therapies that expand the number of patients who can benefit from ADCs and radiopharmaceuticals, and lots of other great topics in this 1-hour podcast.
Links below👇
I love this insight from @transonn, CEO of @EigenTx , a Bay Area biotech startup leveraging lab automation and AI to accelerate the development of cancer priming therapies.
In my lab tour and conversation with Transon, we explored:
+ How Eigen designed their lab for speed and flexibility
+ Eigen’s custom-built LIMS and automated workflow
+ Why priming is crucial for ADC and radioligand cancer therapies
+ Why empathy is so critical to their company culture
+ The value of emerging AI foundation models
If you’re curious about how cutting-edge #biotech startups are really using #AI and #labautomation, check out the full episode. Link in thread.
Spotify: spoti.fi/3BzMqiy
Apple Podcasts (audio only): apple.co/40sQCu9
YouTube: youtu.be/dp9TcruPmlU
Transon Nguyen retweeted
This #RareDiseaseWeek, we’re proud to celebrate our friends at @eigenTx + their work revolutionizing #cancertreatments. Their innovative platform is enhancing targeted therapies, offering new hope for rare disease patients. Learn about their work here:
hubs.ly/Q038nJh10
Welp, it's quite a coincidence that if you buy something from the Toronto airport newsstand (named "Relay"), the transaction shows up on your credit card as "TOR RELAY".
This was my first time trying this and I can now confirm: traveling with external monitors is a certified game changer. – at Toronto, Ontario
For the last year I've been using a homemade bot with the ability to run shell commands in sequence (yes, footgun, but it's actually awesome).
Recently switched LLMs and I'm amazed to see it defy me! The bot didn't listen to my (hacky) instructions and made a PR, the right way.
Had a fantastic time chatting with @bradloncar yesterday during the AI x Bio Summit at the iconic @NYSE! It's been inspiring to see many great minds in biotech come together for one day.
AI x Bio Summit: Co-Founder @transonn describes how AI is enabling @EigenTx to become a discovery engine for priming therapies.
Full video: biotechtv.com/post/ai-x-bio-…
Transon Nguyen retweeted
News: Max Altman has launched a VC firm, Saga Ventures, with ex-Flexport exec Ben Braverman and 2x founder Thomson Nguyen.
Altman, the third bro with Sam and Jack, tells @Forbes he wants to back startups building for "every American," not other techies.
forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/…
Come check out our #AACR2024 poster!
📅 Join us at #AACR2024 on April 9, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Poster Section 42, Board #14 (Abstract #5092) for an in-depth look at how our priming platform expands the therapeutic window of antigen-directed therapies (ADCs, RLTs) through antigen modulation! abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/2…
Weekend #2 hacking on this: eigenbot now has an intent classification agent (on GPT-4) to figure out what to do with a message: send to GPT-3.5 to chat, generate a GraphQL query to our LIMS on the fly for internal questions, etc. It's a natural language interface for everything!
My weekend project: a Slack bot built on GPT-3.5, with some context on our company. I'm sure there's cool work being done with generative AI for drug discovery, but I think there's a quicker tractable win in improving our operational efficiency with it. Let's see where this goes!
Biotech startup scrappiness! High winds just caused a power outage in our area of Redwood City, but the lab must go on. Turn on our hotspot, get out the electric lanterns, connect critical equipment (+ a subset of robots) to our gas generator, and carry on.
7 hours into the outage: refilled generator, put it under a makeshift tarp because wind + rain is picking up, office is running on Li-ion battery packs. And we finished our high-throughput screens!! 16M single-cell data points generated, during an outage.
It's been 3 years since I've been to #SLAS2023, and it's great to be back! As the barrier to entry for lab automation continues to decrease, it's awesome to see all the new things people do with automation, whether it's with robots or better software.
Lab automation lags the tech world a bit (e.g. if your instrument has a RESTful API and it responds to a request in JSON, that's enough to put you in the lead), but I'm optimistic—it's moving in the right direction, and I can't wait to see what comes out of the next SLAS!
(One thing I'd love to see: CI/CD for lab automation. I'd love to define a change to our automated workflows, make a PR, merge it into main, and upon merge run a real life robotic test suite and deploy in the lab. Maybe that'll be @EigenTx's first open source repo.)