Virtual EmbryoVirtual Embryo
Team

Meet the Virtual Embryo team

The Virtual Embryo Moonshot is led by a cross-institution group of principal investigators, with the day-to-day work organized into four teams — the modeling engine, data generation, perturbation models, and the agent interface that ties them together. It was initiated by the Qiu Lab at Stanford, supported by a Laude Institute Moonshot.

Leadership

Principal Investigators

Xiaojie Qiu
Xiaojie Qiu
Project lead · Stanford
Emily Fox
Emily Fox
Stanford
James Zou
James Zou
Stanford
Marinka Zitnik
Marinka Zitnik
Harvard

Virtual Embryo Engine

Consensus-embryo framework & the Pillar foundation model.

Yifan LuYifan LuLeadWeize XuWeize XuLeadZehua ZengZehua ZengJiayuan DingJiayuan DingMengchen WangMengchen Wang
Xiaoke SongXiaoke Song
ZLZhangkang Liang
Mingze SunMingze Sun
Zhenglun KongZhenglun Kong

Data

3D early-embryo & fetal-heart spatial data generation.

Miao CuiMiao CuiLeadNaoki KonnoNaoki Konno
Xiaoying LiaoXiaoying Liao
Yash RanaYash Rana

Perturbation Foundation Model

Flux-matching models for perturbation prediction.

Peter Pao-HuangPeter Pao-HuangLead
YWYue Wu
Mars GaoMars Gao

Agent Interface

PantheonOS, Bio-babel & Bio-evolve — the agent layer.

Weize XuWeize XuLead
Erwin PoussiErwin Poussi
Sairam PanthamSairam Pantham
Christopher ZouChristopher ZouNianping LiuNianping Liu
Xuanzhi ChenXuanzhi Chen
Siyu HeSiyu He

Cross-institution, spanning Stanford and Harvard. Interested in contributing? Get in touch through the Qiu Lab.