Markus Gershater on Why Experimental Design in Biotech is Broken and How to Fix It

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Markus Gershater discusses the flaws in current experimental design in biotech and potential solutions.

This week, we're delighted to be joined by Markus Gershater, Chief Scientific Officer and CoFounder of Synthace - a digital experiment platform built for high-performance life science R&D teams to help them run more powerful experiments and accelerate scientific progress. Host Ross Katz speaks with Markus on what’s broken about: What’s broken about how laboratories across the globe run biological experiments at scale The opportunity that exists for researchers in striving to achieve experimental design automation processes Why, as an industry, we must move towards implementing infrastructure that enables multifactorial experiments versus one-factor experiments And the role of AI in making sense of complex systems. --- If you’re a biotech company struggling to transform your business with data, CorrDyn can help. Whether you need to supplement existing technology teams with specialist expertise or launch a data program that lays the groundwork for future internal hires, you can partner with Corrdyn to unlock the potential of your business data - today. Visit connect.corrdyn.com/biotech to learn more. --- Data in Biotech is a fortnightly podcast exploring how companies leverage…

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Host: Ross Katz

Guest: Markus Gershater

Topics covered

• experimental design
• biotech
• automation
• AI in research
• scientific progress

Keywords

• biological experiments
• experimental design automation
• multifactorial experiments
• AI
• life sciences

Sponsors

CorrDyn

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Organizations: Synthace

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