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Raising $175M to Translate Nature Into Medicine with Viswa Colluru

The Deep End by ODF

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The Importance of Failure in Innovation

I think this is an idea that can apply to basically anyone building in any product even outside of biotech obviously yeah you hit the nail on its head. To say what are ideas that make sense that perhaps have left a delta or alpha of unfulfilled potential and dig into why they didn't work right I'll give you two examples one is immunotherapy so there was a surgeon in the 1890s in New York that said hey what if I take this juice of bacteria and inject it in people's cancers right? He saw remarkable cures then over the next hundred years the idea of fell in and out of fancy but understanding why something failed will allow you to relook at what is an obvious thing that

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