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

Project lead · Stanford

Emily Fox

Stanford

James Zou

Stanford

Marinka Zitnik

Harvard

Virtual Embryo Engine

Consensus-embryo framework & the Pillar foundation model.

Yifan LuLeadWeize XuLeadZehua ZengJiayuan DingNianping LiuMengchen Wang

ZZhaokang

XXiaoke

YYue

Data

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

Miao CuiLeadNaoki Konno

XLXiaoying Liao

YYash

Perturbation Foundation Model

Flux-matching models for perturbation prediction.

Peter Pao-HuangLeadAlex John Belov

Agent Interface

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

Weize XuLead

Erwin Poussi

Sairam Pantham

Christopher Zou

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