On Friday, we lost our dear friend, Alex Pines, Glenn T. Seaborg Professor at Berkeley. He never took life in half measure. Raconteur, provocateur, bon vivant, mentor to generations, one of the last giants of science, even in death, he is larger than life. Alex, we will miss you.
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Great article about @rtnarch’s philosophy of big ideas.
“What we don’t want to do is change just one little vertical silo,” ARCH's @rtnarch told us. “We can think, and have the resources to think, horizontally about the whole system.”View quoted post on X
Why ARCH is contributing over $200 million to Xaira:
endpts.com/archs-bob-nels…
@ForesiteLabs joined forces with ARCH Venture Partners / @rtnarch to incubate Xaira Therapeutics, a biotech company using AI to re-engineer the entire drug discovery and development process. Read more: endpts.com/in-biggest-eve…
Welcome to the team, Mary Helen!
We are elated to welcome Mary Helen Black to Foresite Labs! Mary Helen joins us as VP, Head of Human Genomics, leading a team focused on developing computational platforms leveraging large-scale clinical and genomic data to support new and early ventures.View quoted post on X
Two elegant papers from Vanessa Hayes probe mutational spectra, mutational signatures, and structural variation in African-ancestry prostate cancers, revealing driver mutations and targetable structural variation.
nature.com/articles/s4158…
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
nature.com/articles/s4158…
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…