LifeSciVC

AUGUST 5, 2024

In 2001, I was at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, one of the major players in the nascent field of genomics drug discovery, and that time has strong parallels to the changing state of drug development today. In fact, the Millennium of 2001 (pre-Takeda acquisition) had one drug approved which was Velcade (bortezomib).

Molecular Biology 90

Molecular Biology Production Drug Development Small Molecule 90

Codon

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

I’ve chosen these two because I think they are the linchpin by which we’ll be able to build broadly useful AI models for cell and molecular biology. Synthesizing a single human protein-coding gene costs several hundred dollars and even a simple PCR machine (used for amplifying DNA) costs between $1,500 and $50,000.

DNA 120

DNA RNA Molecular Biology Laboratories 120

Codon

JANUARY 12, 2025

He also posited the existence of a physical material to explain inheritance, which he called “elementen,” or “elements,” many years before nucleic acid had even been isolated 4 and more than 80 years before British biologists unveiled DNA’s structure and founded the field of molecular biology.

DNA 107

DNA Nurses Research Molecular Biology 107