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Yann LeCun, Bob Langer, Jens Nielsen and Fabian Theis Join Cellular Intelligence Scientific Advisory Board

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Turing Award Laureate, Moderna Co-Founder, BioInnovation Institute CEO and Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Director to Advise on Decoding the Logic that Governs How Cells Change and Carrying That Knowledge Into Medicine

BOSTON, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cellular Intelligence, the AI company building a universal foundation model of cell signaling, today announced that Yann LeCun, Robert “Bob” Langer, Jens Nielsen and Fabian Theis have joined its Scientific Advisory Board. Langer joins the company’s Board of Directors as an observer.

Between them, the four hold a Turing Award, more than 1,500 patents, the founding of Moderna, the leadership of the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s BioInnovation Institute and Germany’s highest research honor. Their work and expertise tie directly to the key problems Cellular Intelligence was founded to solve: learning predictive models from complex systems, and turning that understanding into therapeutic applications.

“We are bringing together people who have changed what is possible in AI, biology and medicine to tackle a shared question: can we learn the rules that govern how cells change, and use that knowledge to help patients? Yann, Bob, Jens and Fabian bring the scientific imagination and rigor this challenge demands. Their perspectives will be invaluable as we connect predictive models to experiments and, ultimately, to therapeutic development,” said Micha Breakstone, Ph.D., Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cellular Intelligence.

Yann LeCun received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for foundational work in deep learning, founded Meta’s Fundamental AI Research lab (FAIR) and served as the company’s Chief AI Scientist from 2013 to 2025. He is Executive Chairman of AMI Labs, the world-model company he co-founded, and Silver Professor at New York University. His research centers on AI systems that learn how the world works and predict what happens when they act on it.

“The models that interest me learn how the world works from data and predict what happens when we act on it. Living cells present an extraordinarily rich version of that challenge. What excites me about Cellular Intelligence is the combination of new methods for large-scale cellular data collection, new phenomenological and causal models of cellular dynamics trained from this data, and a team with the ambition to connect the two. The possibility of learning principles that transfer across biological contexts is especially compelling,” said Yann LeCun, Scientific Advisory Board member.

Robert “Bob” Langer is an Institute Professor at MIT, the institution’s highest faculty rank, and the most cited engineer in history. He holds more than 1,500 issued and pending patents, and as a co-founder of Moderna and some 40 other companies, he has received the National Medal of Science, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for work that turned drug delivery and tissue engineering into medicines that reach patients.

“I have been deeply impressed by the team Cellular Intelligence has brought together. What draws me to this company is the opportunity to connect a fundamental understanding of cell behavior with the practical work of developing medicines. If we can better predict how cells respond to an intervention, we can ask more precise questions, design better experiments and open new possibilities for patients. I am excited to help the team pursue that potential,” said Robert “Bob” Langer, Scientific Advisory Board member and Board Observer.

Jens Nielsen is Chief Executive Officer of the BioInnovation Institute, the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s DKK 3 billion-plus engine for founding and scaling life-science companies in Copenhagen, and Professor of Systems Biology at Chalmers University of Technology. Author of more than 900 scientific publications and founder of several biotech companies, he was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in 2019 and is a member of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

“Understanding a cell means understanding how its many systems work together. Cellular Intelligence is bringing quantitative models and carefully designed experiments to that problem at an ambitious scale. I am excited by the opportunity to help turn that understanding into more predictable cell engineering and new therapeutic possibilities,” said Jens Nielsen, Scientific Advisory Board member.

Fabian Theis is Director of the Computational Health Center at Helmholtz Munich, Scientific Director of Helmholtz AI and Professor of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems at the Technical University of Munich. A co-founder of the Human Cell Atlas and a member of its Board of Directors, he received the 2023 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany’s highest research honor, for machine-learning methods that predict how cells develop and respond to drugs, and is a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, and EMBO.

“Progress in modeling cells depends on the quality of the questions our data allow us to ask. What excites me about Cellular Intelligence is its ambition to build rich experimental data and predictive models together. That combination creates an opportunity to test how well models generalize across biological contexts and to learn systematically from where they fall short,” said Fabian Theis, Scientific Advisory Board member.

The appointments follow Arjun Raj’s arrival as Chief Scientific Officer and scientific co-founder, and the company’s acquisition of STEM-PD, an investigational Parkinson’s disease cell therapy with FDA Fast Track designation, from Novo Nordisk in May 2026. Manufacturing and clinical data from the program flow back into the company’s models. The company’s investors include Khosla Ventures, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Novo Nordisk.

About Cellular Intelligence

Cellular Intelligence is a clinical-stage AI company building a universal foundation model of cell signaling to understand, predict and ultimately control cellular behavior. Based in Boston, the company runs experimental biology, machine learning and therapeutic development as a single program, with regenerative medicine at its core. Learn more at www.cellularintelligence.com.

STEM-PD is an investigational therapy. Its safety and efficacy have not been established.

Media contact: Media-Relations@CellularIntelligence.com 

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Customer-Centric “Huawei + Partners” Collaboration System Launched to Scale AI Across Industries

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Leo Chen, Huawei’s Senior Vice President and President of Enterprise Sales, announced the new SCALE partner support system during his “Scaling All Intelligence for Industry Success” keynote address. Huawei intends to use this new system to equip partners with the capabilities they need to help customers move intelligent transformation from individual pilots to large-scale adoption. Chen also shared new insights and practices Huawei has developed on intelligent industry benchmarks.

Chen stated, “The intelligent era is approaching fast. Huawei works with partners to provide products and solutions that solve real business problems. We want to share our own capabilities with partners. By empowering partners, they can bring their unique strengths to bear, and help customers move from compute construction to intelligent application. Huawei is fully committed to helping our customer-centric ‘Huawei + Partners’ collaboration system thrive. We want to help partners solve customer issues more efficiently and help customers achieve large-scale AI adoption.”

Partners face five challenges when scaling intelligent industry projects: solution development, integration verification, solution delivery, O&M, and system collaboration. To help partners overcome these challenges, the SCALE partner support system offers five types of support: Scenario-based Solutions, Co-innovation, Aligned Marketing, Local Services, Consistent Quality, and Efficient Collaboration. These enhanced support offerings provide partners with systematic support from solution development, verification, launch, delivery, and operations, helping them move from benchmark intelligent projects to large-scale AI adoption.

Scenario-based Solutions: Huawei provides open, easy-to-integrate AI foundation products that partners can use to rapidly develop new solutions. These products cover compute, storage, networks, security, and data protection, and include the new SMECE and the DCS AI Solution that help partners more efficiently convert their industry know-how into feasible intelligent solutions. Huawei’s partners have used these products to develop more than 100 scenario-based solutions for eight industries that accelerate AI adoption.

Co-innovation: To help partners replicate benchmark experience and validate solution integration more efficiently, Huawei has opened up its reference architectures and verification environments. This includes the reference architectures for 48 high-value scenarios that partners can refer when designing solutions, setting up test environments, developing applications, and performing debugging and verification. Besides, Huawei provides unified interfaces and development and verification tools through its cloud-based OpenLab to make solution more efficient.

Aligned Marketing: Huawei is committed to helping its partners identify customer needs, launch new solutions, and make standout solutions more visible, verifiable, and replicable so customers can quickly find the solutions they want. Huawei has opened up its Market-to-Lead (MTL) process capabilities to partners and worked together to effectively bring customer-facing solutions to market. Huawei has launched solutions alongside partners, showcased standout solutions at Huawei’s booths and exhibition halls, and built industry showcases with customers. These efforts have enabled customers to better understand the value of solutions and actual validation results. Huawei has worked with partners to build more than 130 showcases with customers globally.

Local Service, Consistent Quality: Huawei is expanding and localizing its partner services, so that partners can offer customers the same high-quality service as Huawei. Partners can access the knowledge, tools, expertise, and service experience through Huawei’s O3 Partner Service Enablement Platform. Huawei offers talent development and certification programs for various service roles, which have been used to cultivate more than 50,000 AI professionals over the past 3 years.

Efficient Collaboration: Huawei provides two one-stop intelligent platforms for partners that simplify the way they work with Huawei. These platforms (HUAWEI eFly and HUAWEI ePartner) serve as unified portals that help partners navigate Huawei’s processes, and provide partners with the data they need to carry out one-stop marketing, transaction, and service operations. Partners gain access to the documentation, tools, IT interfaces, and AI-assisted configuration and intelligent Q&A tools, that help make serving customers more efficiently.

Chen said, “In the era of true intelligence, scaling proven practices across industries will allow more companies to thrive. Industrial intelligence is creating unprecedented opportunities, and Huawei wants to work with our customers and partners to deploy successful benchmarks at scale, and bring the benefits of AI to more industries, organizations, and people.”

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Soach Global Set for Nearly 25x Gains in Partial Exit from National Stock Exchange

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Fund to sell 20% of its decade-old stake in NSE’s IPO; remaining 80% to be held as a long-term investment

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Soach Global Strategic Holdings Limited, Mauritius, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Soach Global Opportunities Fund (together, “Soach Global”), is part exiting from its decade-long investment in the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (“NSE”). The Fund is selling through the offer for sale in NSE’s initial public offering, which opened today.

The Fund acquired 1,50,000 NSE equity shares from Industrial Finance Corporation of India Limited (IFCI) in January 2016 at ₹3,950 per share, aggregating ₹59.25 crore. Over the following decade, the holding multiplied to 82,50,000 shares through corporate actions, without any additional investment. Adjusted for these corporate actions, the Fund’s average acquisition cost is ₹71.8 per share.

The Fund is now selling 16,50,000 equity shares, which is 20% of its holding, at the IPO price band of ₹1,700 to ₹1,785 per share, valuing the sale at approximately ₹280 to ₹295 crore. This realises nearly five times the Fund’s entire original investment, a return of roughly 25x. The Fund will continue to hold 66,00,000 shares, 80% of its position, valued at approximately ₹1,120 to ₹1,180 crore at the price band.

“Bharat is a fast-growing economy with a large number of growth-aspiring youngsters who are quickly learning the risks and rewards of participating in capital markets. We are participating in the offer for sale and selling a partial stake of what we own because we would like to see a large number of the mass retail population hold some stake of NSE. As these retail investors buy small stakes in NSE, directly or indirectly through mutual funds, they will also benefit from the growth of NSE, the same way we have by buying our stake over ten years ago. Of India’s 1.4 billion people, only about 130 million are registered investors on NSE, and that is the opportunity,” said Anubhav Dayal, Founder & Director, Soach Global Opportunities Fund.

“In our country, we have a culture of buying gold at a festival or for a ceremony. Gold, once purchased by a family, is held for a long time, even generations. It is sold only when in desperate need of money. Retail buyers can compare shares of NSE with buying gold. As a multi-asset-class trading platform, NSE will book growth in revenue while operating at a fixed cost, most of it already incurred. It is a high-technology platform settling trades in nanoseconds, and a multi-asset-class exchange: equity, commodities, electricity futures, bond index futures and coal. As India develops, the list of tradable products will only increase, adding to revenues on a largely fixed cost base. This will reflect in its price per share post-listing. This is a one-way partial exit and we have no plans of re-entering,” he added.

About Anubhav Dayal

Anubhav has over 20 years of experience in banking and investment advisory. He started his career with HSBC Group in India, gaining experience across multiple areas of banking, before moving to Hong Kong to manage HSBC’s Non-Resident Indian business for Asia-Pacific. After over nine years with the HSBC Group, he joined Societe Generale Bank and Trust, Hong Kong, as Director, Marketing, a position he held for over five years.

Beyond his work with Soach Global, Anubhav is engaged with India’s capital market innovation ecosystem. He participated in Manthan Ideathon, organised by SEBI in association with NSE, BSE, NSDL, CDSL, NCDEX, MCX, Link Intime and other fintech companies, where his concept, the Virtual Food Grain Asset (VFGA), was a winning entry. He now plans to set up a VFGA exchange platform at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City Company (GIFT City), enabling teams of farmers to sell tokenised food grain assets to overseas buyers, with transparent global price discovery and foreign currency proceeds that add to India’s FX reserves.

Anubhav holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Corporate and Financial Law from The University of Hong Kong, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Delhi, a Professional Certificate in FinTech from The University of Hong Kong, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from Amity Business School, NOIDA, and a B.Sc. (Statistics Honours) from Hindu College, University of Delhi.

About Soach Global Opportunities Fund

Soach Global Opportunities Fund, Mauritius, is the parent of Soach Global Strategic Holdings Limited, Mauritius, its 100% investment-holding subsidiary, which holds the Fund’s 82,50,000 equity shares in NSE.

About Soach Global

Soach Global Corporation Limited is a Hong Kong based group with interests in fund management and advisory. The group focuses on businesses that enhance trade, commerce and long-term investment both in India and globally, and has ambitious plans to diversify into other fields of business that can thrive on Hong Kong’s position as a major international business and financial centre.

 

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EASE Automations Helps Modernize 300+ Collocations in $60 Million Annual Cost-Reduction Initiative

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EASE Automations supported a multi-year TDM modernization initiative designed to eliminate approximately $60 million in annual recurring leased transport costs.

CHICAGO, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — EASE Automations, a strategic telecommunications workforce, network transformation, and managed-services partner, announced the successful completion of a multi-year TDM Emulation initiative supporting a leading wholesale voice and Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider.

The program was designed to remove approximately $5 million per month in leased TDM transport expense, representing approximately $60 million in recurring annual cost once the targeted transport was retired.

The initiative began in 2023 and gained significant momentum in 2024 as EASE Automations expanded its role and team. From 2023 through 2025, EASE deployed a specialized team that grew to approximately 35–40 telecommunications professionals, taking on ownership across network provisioning, circuit design, implementation, carrier coordination, validation, and legacy transport retirement.

Across more than 300 collocation environments, EASE-supported professionals designed and provisioned the IP and TDM connectivity required to bring interconnections closer to the carrier edge, backhaul traffic over IP, and ultimately retire costly leased TDM transport.

The financial opportunity was significant. The program was designed to remove approximately $5 million per month in leased TDM transport expense, representing approximately $60 million in recurring annual cost once the targeted transport was retired.

“Modernizing a carrier network is not simply about installing new technology,” said Stan Scott, Managing Director of EASE Automations. “The real work is making every interconnection, carrier order, provisioning dependency, activation, and cutover line up without disrupting the business. EASE Automations built and sustained a team that could operate in that complexity at scale.”

Throughout the engagement, EASE professionals worked across carrier organizations, internal engineering teams, vendor systems, and network operations to move locations from design through activation. The team brought expertise in carrier-scale network provisioning, circuit design and order management, TDM-to-IP enablement, implementation coordination, network validation, and legacy transport retirement.

Just as important was continuity. As EASE’s role expanded, its professionals developed significant institutional knowledge of the client’s network, provisioning processes, carrier relationships, and operational dependencies. Maintaining that expertise helped sustain execution as the transformation progressed.

The initiative demonstrates EASE Automations’ ability to provide more than individual technical resources. By assembling and sustaining specialized telecommunications teams, EASE helps clients execute complex network transformation initiatives while maintaining the knowledge, coordination, and operational control required to move projects forward.

About EASE Automations

EASE Automations is a strategic telecommunications workforce, network transformation, and managed-services partner. EASE combines specialized carrier-domain knowledge with sustained execution to help organizations modernize complex networks while maintaining operational control.

For more information, visit easeautomations.com.

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Stan Scott, EASE Automations, 1 (312) 803-4808, sscott@easeautomations.com, https://easeautomations.com/

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