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Co-Founder & CSO of Numen (@numenbio, YC S23) • Rice/Oxford Alum • Rhodes Scholar (Texas & Magdalen, 2016) • zipper club (Indiana & BAV, 2019)
San Francisco, CA numen.com Joined July 2012
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Proud to be building @numenbio with @luca_springer and with great backers like @TQVentures in our corner!
TQ Ventures @TQVentures 1d
A cancer test that runs inside a cup. Taken at home, with results sent to your doctor in 30 minutes. Built in a San Francisco lab by a team that started in a shipping container.

What it actually takes to build it:

“If we spend ten, 20, 30, 40 years working on this, that’s okay. The outcome will be worth it.”

@luca_springer, co-founder and CEO of @numenbio

Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome to Numen
00:56 Why catch cancer early
01:24 The first lab was a shipping container
02:28 What the data unlocks next
03:23 National team MVP to founder
04:13 Why bladder cancer first
05:33 The candle prototype
06:25 Meet Atlas, a lab in a cup
06:55 NASA engineers under one roof
07:32 The Viennese café
08:08 Pipette pong
08:46 From the dungeon to Golden Gate Park
09:28 The only milestone that matters
09:59 40 years on one problem
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🚨 New paper out: Tumor monocyte content predicts immunochemotherapy outcomes for operable esophageal cancer. Similar to our previous work in inoperable setting, high TMC is associated w/ longer OS. May help identify EAC patients likely to respond to neoadjuvant ICI. Links below:
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Really fascinating read here- three of the same CD163 monomers working asymmetrically to allow the uptake of diverse ligands. Don't think I've seen this kind of binding before, nature cooks up some interesting mechanisms sometimes!
Matt Higgins @ParasiteMatt Jan 7, 2025
New science from Richard Zhou... When our blood cells lyse, they release haemoglobin, which is dangerous to our body. We detoxify this by binding it to a serum protein, haptoglobin and taking it up into macrophages, using the receptor CD163. Richard showed how CD163 works!
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Congrats to Rice's 13th Rhodes Scholar, Jae Kim 👐🦉👐 Truly well-deserved.
Rice University @RiceUniversity Nov 18, 2024
Congratulations to Rice senior Jae Kim ’25 on being named a Rhodes Scholar! As Rice’s 13th Rhodes Scholar and the only recipient from a Texas university this year, Kim will head to the University of Oxford next fall. Well done, Jae!🎉bit.ly/4eAvJAY
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just awe-inspiring KM curves 🤯what a win for ADCs, immuno, and patients
Applause mid-presentation marking the moment the standard of care changed in #bladdercancer The data speaks for itself, but @tompowles1 spoke for all of us thanking patients, not just those on EV 302, but the many who came before allowing us to celebrate this milestone #EVPembro
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