ChatGPT で犬の癌ワクチンを設計した起業家がスタートアップを設立

Robert Hart

is a London-based reporter at *The Verge* covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for *Forbes*.

Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: he’s launched a startup.

That entrepreneur is Paul Conyngham, who says he is launching Gamgee to offer “personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs.” But his ambitions go well beyond dogs — and pets — with Gamgee’s website promising the company will harness AI and genetics to develop personalized treatments for a range of diseases and species, including humans.

At the center of Gamgee’s origin story is Rosie, Conyngham’s Staffordshire bull terrier-Shar Pei mix, who features prominently on Conyngham’s social media and the startup’s website, as well as its AI-generated anime launch video. When announcing Gamgee on X, Conyngham said “I used chatgpt + computational genomics to design a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for her tumour. Several of her tumours shrank.”

Conyngham, who stresses on Gamgee’s website that he is “not a biologist,” credits that intervention with adding years to Rosie’s life. Gamgee’s stated mission is to do that at scale. In case the canine element is lost on its visitors, the website features a slideshow of adorable dogs alongside ages and purported cancer diagnosis to remind them “who we’re building this for.”

But as I reported for *The Verge* earlier this year, the science behind Rosie’s story is considerably messier than Conyngham’s neat account suggests. The exact role AI played in the endeavor wasn’t clear, and researchers said the broad claims gave the technology too much credit while minimizing the role of the humans involved.