"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
Margaret Atwood has claimed that, according to her grandmother (maiden name Webster), the 17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivor Mary Webster might have been an ancestor:..
Webster is the subject of Atwood's poem "Half-Hanged Mary", as well as the subject of Atwood's dedication in her novel The Handmaid's Tale ..
"In The Handmaid's Tale, Gilead is the totalitarian, patriarchal theocracy that replaced the United States, established by a fundamentalist group called the Sons of Jacob after a coup. "
Unlike Palantir's explicit defense focus, DeepMind faces internal friction. Some workers have voted to unionize to block DeepMind models from being used in military or sovereign defense contracts. 🤔
Demis Hassabis , Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, has explicitly backed Google’s shift toward national security and military partnerships. This represents a significant reversal from his previous stance when DeepMind was acquired by Google.
"The intellectual arc of William Sims Bainbridge’s career confirms that his studies of 20thC religious cults & his 21st-century engineering of digital architectures are part of the exact same continuity: the systematic mapping, prediction, & control of collective human behavior.
There is a direct chronological and thematic intersection between the concepts in William Sims Bainbridge’s eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming (published in 2013) and the Gamergate controversy, which erupted just one year later in 2014. 🤔