The 2020s will be the decade of biomedicine. Almost everything else may crash but budgets for this will be unlimited.
Founders should consider joining Illumina, Roche, GSK, etc to learn skills. And learning how to "biohack" at home.
medium.com/@ThatMrE/a-gui…
Founders should consider joining Illumina, Roche, GSK, etc to learn skills. And learning how to "biohack" at home.
medium.com/@ThatMrE/a-gui…
What the internet was to software, or crypto was to finance, the virus will be to biomedicine.
It is going to decentralize it, accelerate it, make it highly personal, cause an enormous surge of new talent into the area, and (most importantly) change the risk calculus.
It is going to decentralize it, accelerate it, make it highly personal, cause an enormous surge of new talent into the area, and (most importantly) change the risk calculus.
The risk calculus part is important. Up until this point, the cost of biomedical delay was invisible and deniable.
But what FDA's CDRH division did in terms of delaying EUAs for lab tests has now very publicly cost us trillions of dollars and likely many American lives.
But what FDA's CDRH division did in terms of delaying EUAs for lab tests has now very publicly cost us trillions of dollars and likely many American lives.
What FDA has done in terms of delaying drug/vaccine approvals may also come out. We will see a societal movement like ACT UP, times 1000.
Read about ACT UP. This time, though, the goal must be not to "reform" FDA but to route around it at state level.
npr.org/sections/healt…
Read about ACT UP. This time, though, the goal must be not to "reform" FDA but to route around it at state level.
npr.org/sections/healt…
ACT UP was activists identifying the hidden bottlenecks & pressing regulators, govts, companies to prioritize treatments for a deadly virus.
The key was combining outrage with technical knowledge of specific regulations & drugs, to make specific demands.
npr.org/sections/healt…
The key was combining outrage with technical knowledge of specific regulations & drugs, to make specific demands.
npr.org/sections/healt…
"ACT UP's fundamental contention was that, with a new epidemic disease such as AIDS, testing experimental new therapies is itself a form of health care and that access to health care must be everyone's right."
New era means new tactics. But know history.
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
New era means new tactics. But know history.
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
The key concept is that a new, contagious, often lethal virus changes the risk calculus. It's now riskier *not* to act, riskier to delay new technologies.
A wartime mentality means a wholly new pace of innovation.
A wartime mentality means a wholly new pace of innovation.
