Tobias Baechtold<\/a>, Global Lead for Digital Lab Services & Infrastructure at Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, he shared how discussions at last year\u2019s Lab of the Future Congress inspired his work on the D-WoW project to strengthen foundational digital lab infrastructure and enable advanced technologies like FAIR data and GenAI. See the full interview below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Technology is not the problem!” In an interview with Tobias Baechtold, Global Lead for Digital Lab Services & Infrastructure at Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, he shared how discussions at last year\u2019s Lab of the Future Congress inspired his work on the D-WoW project to strengthen foundational digital lab infrastructure and enable advanced technologies… <\/p>\n
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