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Amrita Sarkar

Author: Amrita Sarkar

Amrita Sarkar, Ph.D. is a Principal on the Healthcare & Life Sciences Startups team at AWS, where she works with the founders and investors behind the world’s most innovative HCLS startups to help them build at scale, resolve technical/regulatory challenges and win more business. Prior to joining AWS four years ago, she was a Venture Capital investor based in Paris for several years, investing in the Life Sciences among other sectors. She has mentored hundreds of startups across the United States and Europe, including for Techstars. She holds a BA in Mathematics and Molecular Biology from Middlebury College, a PhD in Computational Biology from NYU/Mount Sinai School of Medicine and an MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris. In 2018, Forbes named her one of the top tech disrupters in France. She currently lives in New York.

Executive Conversations with Nosis Bio and Vevo: Using Generative AI on AWS to Shift the Pharmaceutical R&D Paradigm

Today, organizations are looking to harness the power of generative AI, including foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) to innovate faster to reinvent patient outcomes. While this has created a lot of hype, the adoption of these technologies in real-world drug development is still a challenge for most organizations. Amrita Sarkar, Principal Healthcare […]