Tony Kulesa is the first venture capitalist I met and the reason I got into startups and VC. He’s inspired and empowered me and countless others to pursue their dreams. Congratulations to Tony and Pillar VC on partnership.

Women: not shocked

Some quick advice about essay writing. I learned this from Saloni but think it might be useful to more people. nikomccarty.com/p/quick-advice…

Huge congrats to Jake Becraft and the entire Strand Therapeutics team on this accomplishment! I had the pleasure of seeing this tech at its infancy as a grad project and am thrilled to see its transition to the clinic. Bravo!

High velocity, no-strings-attached funding for your life sciences company. + Get face-time with leading execs at Eli Lilly and Company. You should apply.

What were the 50 most successful life sciences startups of the past 15 years? 🧬🚀 For our Pear VC Biotech: Bench to Business series, we conducted an in-depth review of these companies that we dubbed the “biotech behemoths.” 🦍 Link here: pear.vc/biotech-behemo…

Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner. The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety:

And...we're back for year 2! Applications for Dojo Grants are OPEN for the 2024-2025 academic year until July 21st at 11:59 pm PDT. See thread for details 👇(1/n)

Excited to announce this year's Frequency Bio speakers! Three alumni who are now biotech founders across therapeutics, tools, and agriculture and backed by top VCs. Applications close July 2nd.

A Molecular Biologist’s Advice For Life. Having just turned 50, I’ve been reflecting on my first half-century… my passion for science as a lens for looking at the world has been a thread that has run throughout. Here are 12 pieces of advice for college & early career STEM

I’m starting a company. An internet-scale dataset is created every day that can be used to cure diseases. ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ Yet decisions for developing new drugs use a tiny fraction of it. ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ After years of building and investing in therapeutics

Last day to apply!

Two students from the Waterloo Science and Waterloo Mathematics are exploring new ways to bring cultivated seafood to the table. Kevin Shen and Rikard Saqe apply computational modelling to understand how fish cells grow and transform. 🔗More: uwaterloo.ca/news/leveragin…

Rapid-fire field report on Bio x ML at ICML 2024 1. Data sparsity is the central theme of ICML 2024. Emergent means of improving model efficiency, data compression and generating synthetic data are abound. 2. Frontier research has moved from protein structure prediction to

Spoke last night to some brilliant undergrads Nucleate Dojo in SF about major challenges that UK + Europe face for leading in science and technology. Wake up this morning to find the UK has shelved its AI initiative. Case in point: bbc.com/news/articles/…

I’m all for new models of communities/hubs but something about recent startup islands/“pop-up cities” doesn’t sit right with me

It never hit me how bad Canada’s monopoly issue is until I moved countries and realized I have three different drug stores options 😭

really popped off here nothing feels better than to have truly earned our certainties

They call me 007 0 publications 0 funding 7 more years to finish my PhD