Healthcare Technology Report September 15, 2025
After two decades in machine learning research, JP Vert left academia to build rather than study. His focus turned to creating something that didn’t exist yet—a computational model that could learn the language of biology as fluently as ChatGPT parses text.
In an interview with The Healthcare Technology Report, he shared how his path from professor to founder led to the creation of Bioptimus, a company developing foundation models trained not on words, but on cells, genomes, and patient records.
Vert earned a PhD in mathematics and spent his career applying machine learning to problems in biology and computational biology. After years publishing papers and training PhD students, Vert moved into industry—first at Google Research, then at Owkin, before launching...
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