{"id":3676,"date":"2025-05-08T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/insitro-ai-biotech-daphne-koller-staff-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:02:21","slug":"insitro-ai-biotech-daphne-koller-staff-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/insitro-ai-biotech-daphne-koller-staff-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Insitro, an AI biotech founded by Daphne Koller, lays off staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Insitro, an AI biotech founded by Daphne Koller, lays off staff<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Insitro, the closely watched AI biotech founded by the Stanford professor and entrepreneur Daphne Koller, said Thursday it was laying off 22% of its staff, or around 60 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of a series of cuts that have hit well-backed startups over the last couple years, amid a prolonged downturn in biotech fundraising. A few startups have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/08\/22\/tome-biosciences-gene-editing-biotech-floundering\/#:~:text=Buzzy%20gene-editing%20startup%20Tome,1.\">shut down<\/a> altogether. Others have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/01\/16\/dewpoint-biomolecular-condensate-layoffs\/\">slashed<\/a> early-stage research to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/01\/08\/scribe-therapeutics-crispr-gene-editing-layoffs\/\">conserve resources<\/a> for their first clinical trials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis proactive action streamlines our operations, sharpens our focus on key priorities, and extends our runway into 2027,\u201d an Insitro spokesperson<strong> <\/strong>said in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/08\/insitro-ai-biotech-daphne-koller-staff-layoffs\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Jason Mast<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/08\/insitro-ai-biotech-daphne-koller-staff-layoffs\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Insitro, an AI biotech founded by Daphne Koller, lays off staff Insitro, the closely watched AI biotech founded by the Stanford professor and entrepreneur Daphne Koller, said Thursday it was laying off 22% of its staff, or around 60 people.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of a series of cuts that have hit well-backed startups over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,2194,2208,2217,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-biotech","category-drug-development","category-health-tech","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}