Our 2nd Annual Investigator Retreat wrapped up with talks covering immunology and technology development from Core Investigators @ChristophThaiss and @FelixHorns, our incoming Science Fellow @maya_arce_, and our Innovation Investigators and Ignite Awardees @icclarker, Calvin Kuo, Theo Roth, and @rsaxton_. We look forward to seeing how the connections made this week turn into new collaborations.

The Arc Institute Investigator Retreat is off to a great start! Huge thanks to @davey_burke and @BrianHie for sharing their computational research, and to @ishahjain, Will Allen, @FaranakFattahi, and @brainevodevo for diving into cell biology and neuroscience.

Come join the bridge editing team @arcinstitute and build the future of genome design!

Core Investigator @li_lingyin's new paper in @NatChemBio investigates why human STING inhibitors have shown limited efficacy, despite strong activity in mouse models. The study, led by @xujun_cao and @rjchan426, finds that the commonly targeted site on STING is not required for human signaling, and identify an alternative regulatory mechanism.

Welcome @ishahjain, Arc's eighth Core Investigator! Jain has spent more than a decade studying how the human body senses, and responds to, external molecules—especially oxygen and vitamins.

Love the enthusiasm @nalidoust! Virtual Cell Challenge entrants who are happy to share their models will benefit the entire field.

Getting to the virtual cell is the holy grail of life science. Now there's a challenge on to accelerate it @arcinstitute @CellCellPress @nvidia @10xGenomics @yusufroohani @StanfordAILab @davey_burke @UltimaGenomics

How close are we to simulating living cells? Today @arcinstitute is launching the Virtual Cell Challenge (VCC), an annual competition for evaluating progress towards a virtual cell. Read our @CellPressNews commentary

Incredibly excited to support and partner with @arcinstitute to accelerate our understanding of biology -- remember, if you build great biology FMs, you can use them to learn new biology!!! Critical for the future of life sciences and drug discovery.

Proud to support @arcinstitute's inaugural #VirtualCellChallenge with @10xGenomics and @nvidia, to push the frontiers of virtual cell modeling. Grand prize worth $100,000! Press Release: #BioAI #SingleCell #VirtualCell #UG100