Schubert: AI Proteins

Schubert: AI Proteins

In GeekWire, Charlotte Schubert (@schubertcm) takes us inside Seattle companies that are using new AI tools to generate protein designs, spun out from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. Proteins are the workhorse molecules of the body and are...
Silberner: Drug Price Negotiation

Silberner: Drug Price Negotiation

For STAT News, Joanne Silberner (@jsilberner) reports on the role of a medication’s efficacy and R&D costs in its eventual price, and what role this might play in Medicare’s newly granted authority to negotiate prices. She discusses new research that reveals the...
Stiffler: Disrupting Drug Development

Stiffler: Disrupting Drug Development

For Geekwire’s Health Tech podcast, Lisa Stiffler (@lisa_stiffler) talks to Sanath Kumar Ramesh, whose son Raghav was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder. As a software engineer, Ramesh is oriented toward problem-solving. So when Raghav’s doctors told the family...

Yan: What Doesn’t Kill You

CO, carbon monoxide, is a toxin. But Wudan Yan found a physician-researcher in New York who says it could be therapeutic—in amounts much lower than the lethal dose, of course. Read Wudan’s piece in STAT, and come ask her about it and her career in international...