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Markus Gershater on Why Experimental Design in Biotech is Broken and How to Fix It

April 15, 2026 · 41 min

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This week, we're delighted to be joined by Markus Gershater, Chief Scientific Officer and CoFounder of Synthace - a digital experiment platform built for high-performance life science R&D teams to help them run more powerful experiments and accelerate scientific progress.

Host Ross Katz speaks with Markus on what’s broken about:

  • What’s broken about how laboratories across the globe run biological experiments at scale
  • The opportunity that exists for researchers in striving to achieve experimental design automation processes
  • Why, as an industry, we must move towards implementing infrastructure that enables multifactorial experiments versus one-factor experiments
  • And the role of AI in making sense of complex systems.

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