Emily Fox and team chosen for Moonshot seed grant

The flagship lab funding initiative of Laude Institute has announced their very first incarnation, Moonshots ONE. Moonshots are seed funding and multi-year labs to proven academic researchers who are using AI to take on species-level challenges. The committee has made their selections from among Fields Medalists, Nobel laureates, and Turing Award recipients who are pointing their best thinking at problems that matter to everyone. Seed awardees each receive $250,000 and six months to develop a full proposal for a $10 million multi-year Moonshot lab.

Emily's team is among just eight selected as seed grant winners across four categories of broad societal impact and includes Xiaojie Qiu with Stanford Genetics, James Zou with Stanford Biomedical Data Science, and Marinka Zitnik formerly with Stanford Computer Science and now at Harvard Medical School. Their project is part of the Advancing Healthcare category, titled The Virtual Embryo: Predictive Modeling of Human Development and Congenital Defects. As a result of this amazing opportunity, Emily and her colleagues have permission to be wildly ambitious and held to a real deadline for those ambitions to be realized! It's truly fantastic news we are thrilled to share.