Two mask designs have been awarded $150,000 each as winners of the #MaskInnovationChallenge Phase 2 from BARDA, NIOSH, & National Institute of Standards and Technology. Read the #BARDAStory about the designs from winners Airgami - Origami Mask & @ReadiMask, as well as runners-up @Flo_Mask & Levi Strauss & Co.: ow.ly/sVK950LEPit

Great example of government sparking innovation BARDA. Next gen masks. 3 on the winners marketed. thehill.com/policy/healthc…

There’s still time to submit for a new partnership opportunity! DRIVe is seeking innovative proof-of-concept technologies that enable on-demand manufacturing of nucleic acid vaccines at the point-of-service. For more information, please visit: ow.ly/N5st50Luu7f

This is the best team USA I’ve ever seen. Brilliant touches, incredible speed, and power on the strikes. Let’s pray they can finish.

Watching people you love die waiting for an organ transplant is awful. Knowing that most of this death is unnecessary is even worse. Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree - we need to break up the national organ monopoly. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

I had a lot of fun talking to Santi Ruiz about my time building and leading BARDA DRIVe

open.substack.com/pub/sandeeppat… We desperately need business model innovation in health, targeting a wide array of industries that most influence our collective health and wellbeing, not just healthcare.

China is outpacing the U.S. in biotech drug approvals, and experts warn that in a race where speed matters, America is stuck in the slow lane — held back by regulatory and operational drag. trib.al/zuJ0CUA

Good or bad, when institutions are remade it's an opportunity for fresh new ideas to root. There's plenty of negative criticism out there—from all sides—but Sandeep Patel and I jotted down some constructive ideas to throw into the mix—published here in STAT

FDA has one such huge data repository, currently locked away and sitting idle. Perhaps easily unlockable albeit with some agency creativity—idea #4 in this piece by me and Sandeep Patel in STAT last week: x.com/finrow/status/…

Ideas matter. Write them down. Around a month ago, Caleb Watney sent me a STAT piece from Brian Finrow & Sandeep Patel & something clicked. I had co-started the Clinical Trial Abundance initiative a few months prior, but the problem seemed intractable.

Haven't read this yet but will repost b/c this is a conversation that needs to be happening more. Thanks to Sandeep Patel for jumping in. The Vannevar Bush-era system for funding and conducting science is getting replaced -- what shall we replace it with? Please discuss.

DARPA’s magic isn't money - it's the program managers. What if AI could play that role for science, on a much bigger scale? Second installment of a 4-part series on rebuilding the architecture of science: The AI Program Manager open.substack.com/pub/catalyzern…

Genomics meets exposomics: historic meeting ushers in a new age of human health discovery, via EurekAlert!! ColumbiaPublicHealth eurekalert.org/news-releases/… Sandeep Patel Rima Habre, ScD Network for Exposomics in the United States Jay Bhattacharya @

Exposomics is a natural evolution of genomics & can help illuminate the "dark matter" of human disease. Many features also make it commercially interesting. (1) it's different for everyone and changes unpredictably (reason to keep getting tested) (2) can identify an entirely