Founder & CEO @BRAINCURESLtd and dreamster dedicated to prevention and treatment of mental health disorders that affect at least 1 in 6 people worldwide
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🧵 Retraction Watch should look into how Professor George Kassiotis’ supervision over the PhD student Kevin Ng @TheCrick led to the retraction of TracerX study. Should the research integrity investigation have been broader (i.e., looked at all Ng papers)?
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Science Translational Medicine has retracted a paper on COVID-19 vaccines after an institutional investigation revealed a former Ph.D. student fabricated data. Ng wrote an article on Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Turandot” for @nytimes earlier this year.
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🧵 As feminist scholar Sara Ahmed argues in her 2021 book Complaint!, this process frames the complainant as the problem and dissipates the threat they pose. It ensures that lessons are imprinted on those who dare to voice dissent and demand accountability
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🧵@formationbio CEO @BenjamineYLiu is convinced that drug discovery isn’t the bottleneck in getting medicines to market—it’s going through clinical trials. Now he’s raised some $615 million from investors to buy stalled drugs and use AI to test them faster
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Narratives, human feedback, and intermediate data are all written to Snowflake and become queryable through ARK, @formationbio’s conversational interface to internal knowledge. A BD team member can ask, "What are the genetic insights for Asset X?"
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With the new $600 million fund, @formationbio’s CEO @BenjamineYLiu hopes to acquire or license 10 to 15 new drugs over the next three to five years, and push them through clinical trials faster with the help of AI @amyfeldman @Forbes
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🧵 The Trillion Dollar Brain Challenge that is a Hard Pill to Swallow for Pharma and Venture Capital
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🧵Headlines from David Sabatini @DMSabatini's five year #MeToo saga lnkd.in/p/eDnpCC_X as covered by Nick Paul Taylor, @ky_lahucik @maxonwifi @joshuarhett, Kathianne Boniello, @newsmark02, James Gordon, @meredithwadman @SnoozyWeiss @juliabonavita13 @will_potter @ToriaWrites
On TikTok and across social media, Professor David Sabatini was labeled a "predator," an "abuser," and a "creepy dirtbag." "It was horrible," @DMSabatini said. "'Rapists roaming the halls of MIT' was basically what was said." @TedDanielNews #MeToo #HeToo
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Things turned around somewhat in 2023, when @BillAckman and an anonymous donor pledged $25 million to his research, and he was able to rebuild his career in Prague — he was even able to open a Boston branch of his new lab in 2024 @neerajadeshp @PirateWires
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Retraction of Science Translational Medicine research article “SARS-CoV-2 S2–targeted vaccination elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies” by KW Ng et al from Kassiotis lab. @TheCrick has concluded that fabricated data are present in Figure 2, B and C
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🧵 Jason Wei Locasale @LocasaleLab, who identified himself as biracial Asian, described a culture at @DukeU in which white people are hired and retained over Asians. He listed 14 white male and female employees who have found support or gotten promotions
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Nondisclosure agreements and gag orders must be abolished in academic life. Disciplinary processes must follow clear due-process standards, not anonymous whispers or informal tribunals. The role of administrators must be limited to support @brownstoneinst
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There were early warning signs: jealousy from senior colleagues when my research outpaced theirs; the creeping politicization of academia; hiring decisions that elevated people for their symbolic value or personal relationships rather than their expertise
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🧵 Duke University prevailed in a discrimination and retaliation suit brought by Wei Jiang, a tenured medical professor whose salary was reduced over 75%, after the university began auditing a touted study she’d done
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