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Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool

AI in Biology then and now (M2L 2025) · Mediterranean Machine Learning summer school / YouTube
Known for
Joined Isomorphic Labs, Oct 2026; ex-DeepMind AlphaFold.
Why chosen
She connects computational biology with the AI that reshaped it. She joined DeepMind in 2018 as a science engineer and worked on AlphaFold, comparing its predictions with lab structures in 2020, work that led to AlphaFold-Multimer. In 2021 she was lead author on the paper that predicted structures for the human proteome, and in 2022 MIT Technology Review named her an Innovator Under 35. In October 2026 she joined Isomorphic Labs as Principal Research Scientist. From folding proteins to finding medicines.
Worked with
John Jumper, Google DeepMind
AI in Biology then and now (M2L 2025) · Mediterranean Machine Learning summer school / YouTube
Role
Principal Research Scientist, Isomorphic Labs
Status
JoinedJoined Isomorphic Labs as Principal Research Scientist in October 2026, after eight years at Google DeepMind.
Current location
London, UK
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