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Drawing inspiration from the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics, Edison Scientific and FutureHouse have assembled a set of Millennium Problems for Biology. Each problem is intended to be very difficult to solve, but easy to validate in a simple laboratory environment. For this reason, grand challenges like “Solve Aging” that are very important and challenging but very hard to validate are excluded. Solving any
Sam Rodriques, an alum of the Synthetic Neurobiology research group, has been recognized in the Innovators category of the TIME100 AI 2025 list. Dr. Rodriques co-founded the nonprofit FutureHouse in 2023, with the aim of giving scientists new tools to break through bottlenecks and improve their workflows. To that end, FutureHouse is developing AI agents that can formulate hypotheses, conduct experiments, and analyze
FutureHouse's head of science explains its agent stack, a drug-repurposing case, and why scientific publishing and evaluation must be redesigned for machine readers.
A theoretical physicist by training, Sam Rodriques recognized the possible uses of AI for scientific discovery. In 2023 he co-founded the nonprofit FutureHouse, with a goal to build AI scientists that can formulate hypotheses, conduct experiments, and analyze data by themselves. While AI science is an increasingly crowded field, FutureHouse’s audacious vision and scientific bonafides have earned it the backing of Eri