New Stanford President (Jonathan Levin) was involved in designing an Advance Market Commitment for a pneumococcal vaccine, which saved the lives of 700,000 lives in developing countries. news.stanford.edu/report/2024/04…

Congrats to NIH Office of Data Science Strategy for their solicitation – “Advancing Health Research through Ethical, Multimodal AI.” Using Other Transactions for faster and more flexible contracting datascience.nih.gov/artificial-int…

I love this Nature interview with Cultivarium co-founder Nili Ostrov - 'The beauty of what science can do when urgently needed.' FROs can combine the 'public goods' aspiration of academia and the urgency and focus on results of startups. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congrats to Cultivarium and Convergent Research for this important progress on domesticating non-model organisms and growing the #bioeconomy . The world needs more FROs, and more philanthropists and governments should support them.

Great U.S. National Science Foundation solicitation on protein design! new.nsf.gov/funding/opport… Forward to your protein engineering peeps! Machine learning for protein engineering seminar

Great list Jacob Trefethen!

This is a frequently misdiagnosed ailment. The actual problem is not enough bookcases.

In response to a request from Congress, NIH wrote a report on their current investments in geroscience, which could increase healthspan. Thanks to AFAR for their leadership on this important issue. See afar.org/amplifying-ger… #longevity

Definitely worth listening to!

Congrats to Darshak Sanghavi at ARPA-H for launching a “pay for success” program to improve health outcomes such as maternal health, opiod use, heart attack/stroke, and alcohol-related harms. For details, see arpa-h.gov/research-and-f…

Biden policies are increasing the use of visas for STEM workers and entrepreneurs (O-1A, EB-2) by 30-55 percent. Immigration attorney Sophie Alcorn predicts these changes will result in “new technology startups that would not otherwise have been created.” science.org/content/articl…

Congrats Jacques Carolan!

Join the revolution in scientific entrepreneurship! The Venture Science Doctorate is back for its second cohort. It's a 3-year, fully-funded PhD program designed to address global challenges. Apply now dsv.vc/3XNUQZC #VSD #PhD '