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    Drug development remains an incredibly expensive endeavor. Much of the cost can be attributed to late-stage clinical trial failures.  The burden is borne first and foremost by clinical trial participants who aren’t helped by the experimental medicine. It also significantly impacts the companies sponsoring these studies. Everyone would like to improve the chances that a… Read More

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    • Exactly this sort of poor decision making discussed here: https://t.co/30LjubP2Ln w characteristically penetrating insights from @sciencescanner (and others)… https://t.co/iQ6FYVP9Uj

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    Part II of this series is here “Agency,” Harvard’s Zak Kohane and I agree, is the word of 2025.    Kohane’s reasoning: “Patients understand how to increase their agency in their disease journey with often correct and thoughtful instant second opinions from AI.”    This perspective aligns with the opportunities described by A16z VCs Vijay… Read More

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    • Finally, my favorite, Part III (https://t.co/d3qz7qNQqA) of @timmermanreport AI+health series focuses on foundational role of human agency in health, esp work of @PennPosPsychCtr's M Seligman, + insights on genAI for pts from @zakkohane, @goldbergcarey. + impl for @peloton, etc. https://t.co/F0UoaQZ0y0

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    Monday was my last day as a group leader at The Francis Crick Institute. I got my job at the Crick in 2020, almost exactly 5 years ago, right as COVID was beginning. I had finished my PhD in 2019, and had always told myself that I would only ever be an academic if I… Read More

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    • RT @ldtimmerman: Why I Left European Science. By @SGRodriques https://t.co/CONGrLWatN