From Molecules to Machine Learning: CTO Chaemin Lim on Drug Design & Leadership.
What does drug discovery look like in the age of AI?
In this episode of She Leads Biotech, Sharron Cox sits down with Chaemin Lim, Chief Technology Officer of Coiled Therapeutics, for a wide-ranging discussion that spans synthetic chemistry, startup life, and the future of AI in oncology.
With over 15 years in drug development, Chaemin shares how her love of chemistry began in her father’s lab in Korea and evolved into a career at the intersection of data, design, and deep science. From building AI tools for medicinal chemists to learning how to translate science for investors, her journey is anything but linear and all the more inspiring for it.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
02:30 Growing up in science (and her dad’s chemistry lab)
05:45 Pharmacy school and falling in love with drug development
10:40 Building her own computational chemistry lab in grad school
17:30 From postdoc to industry: how AI came into play
21:00 What AI can and can’t do in drug discovery
26:30 Startup life and translating science to strategy
29:00 Advice for women in biotech and defining yourself as a “designer”
33:00 What’s next for Coiled Therapeutics
Tune in for a thoughtful, practical, and occasionally hilarious conversation that proves science and leadership are anything but boring.
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