"Facebook pioneer Peter Thiel invests in coronavirus antibodies
Paypal founder Peter Thiel joins AbCellera in Canada. The German VC investor Christian Angermayer and Uma Thurman are also there."manager-magazin.de/finanzen/artik…
"Leading biotech investors and Peter Thiel's (52) Founders Fund are investing $105 million in the Canadian biotech start-up AbCellera. The sponsors also include the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly"
"Thiel became aware of the biotech company through the German venture capital investor Christian Angermayer . Angermayer's Presight Capital is also among the new investors."
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"The strategy of the venture fund is actually to follow Thiel & other leading venture capitalists in their investments. .. Presight Capital co-founder Fabian Hansen gave the impetus and proposed the investment idea to the Founders Fund founder, who is a friend of Angermayer"
"In addition to AbCellera, rivals Regeneron, Amgen and Vir Biotechnology are also said to be working on corona antibodies."
"The round of financing was led by the biotech special fund OrbiMed and the previously invested DCVC Bio. DCVC's managing partner, John Hamer, once headed the Monsanto venture fund, which has now been taken over by German pharma& agrochemical group Bayer"
"The "Pulp Fiction" star is said to have gone to a dinner with biotech and venture managers with Angermayer - out of interest and in order to open up new access for Presight in the scene with her celebrity."
"US actress Uma Thurman (L) listens as Christian Angermayer (R), founder, Apeiron Investment Group, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on October 18, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California."
AbCellera en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbCellera
"The company is best known for its leading role in the Pandemic Prevention Platform, a project of DARPA's Biological Technologies Office"
Dec. 2011 - Amgen, Biogen Idec, and Baxter Invest in Biogenerics Industry Despite Lack of FDA Guidelines for Approval cellculturedish.com/amgen-biogen-i…
BRONFMAN E.L. ROTHSCHILD L.P. ATTAINS $725,000 POSITION OF BIOGEN INC. (BIIB)
- 20th May 2018
Grok : Stuart Pivar inherited a substantial fortune from the family plastics business .., which funded his lifelong art collecting, the founding of the New York Academy of Art (with Andy Warhol in 1979), and his later pursuits in theoretical biology (Lifecode).
" Stuart Pivar was the primary founder and financial backer of the New York Academy of Art , and Andy Warhol was his high-profile co-founder and public face..
Key Facts About the Founding :
Idea and money: Pivar , flush with cash from selling his family’s plastics business, wanted to create a graduate school that would bring back rigorous classical training in drawing, painting, and sculpture ..
" Synesthesia is actively studied at institutions like MIT, particularly through interdisciplinary projects at the MIT Media Lab. One prominent example is the "Digital Synesthesia" initiative ..
which explores how to simulate or extend synesthetic-like experiences via technology to enhance human perception beyond natural sensory limits,eg. interfacing computers with multisensory data for broader environmental awareness" media.mit.edu/projects/digit…
MIT's involvement extends to publishing foundational and ongoing scholarship on synesthesia through the MIT Press, including Richard E. Cytowic's 2018 primer Synesthesia (with a 2025 edition highlighting its spectrum-like nature across brain pathways) thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-200-ye…
Grok : "Adding an immersive digital ecosphere, like VR environments synced to trance rhythms, could amplify the MDMA-trance combo into hyper-real altered states, where visuals morph with beats for total sensory envelopment and ego-blurring unity...🤔
Beginning in 2020, he organized efforts against COVID-19 pandemic restrictions with the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), and in 2021 he founded Brownstone Institute think tank to continue such efforts."
As of 2021, he is Chief Liberty Officer of *. He is an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research affiliate of Blockchain Innovation Hub of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, & an Acton Institute associate."
"At the beginning of Isaac Asimov’s classic sci-fi novel Foundation, Hari Seldon introduces his idea for a massive project.. Using the science of psychohistory, Seldon has predicted that the current Galactic Empire will fall and a dark age will follow" reactormag.com/the-encycloped…
In Asimov's Foundation (1951), famed mathematician and psychologist Hari Seldon has developed the science of psychohistory, which uses sophisticated mathematics and statistical analysis to predict future trends on a galactic scale.
Wiki : "Although there is no explicit admission to this effect, it is not uncommon to find claims in the media that the various Deep Thought, Deep Blue, and DeepMind are named after the Deep Thought supercomputer imagined by Adams..
Elon Musk was among the first funders of DeepMind , and has often admitted that Adams was fundamental to its formation.".. 🤔