How Your Microbiome Is the Future of Personalized Medicine

Outpost Bio Co-Founder and CEO Jenny Yang joined Mizter Rad to talk about why the gut microbiome may be a missing variable in personalized medicine—and why understanding what microbes actually do to drugs and other molecules requires a new set of tools and data.

The conversation covers:

• Why differences in the gut microbiome can help explain why the same drug works differently across people

• How Outpost generates high-quality, human-derived microbiome data from diverse populations to train machine learning models

• How metabolomics reveals what microbial communities actually do to compounds—not just which microbes are present

• Jenny's vision for making microbiology computable, so models can eventually predict how a microbial community will transform a drug, nutrient, or other molecule