BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD in Medicine #FirstGen | Physiologist-Pharmacogist & Microscopist | Me: 🇮🇪👨🔬🏳️🌈 he/him | Work: 🔬💊🐀⚕️ 🧪🧬 @LTubularCentre
Joined November 2011
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Keith Siew retweeted
Jan 22
Today, we’re launching Mendra, a rare disease therapeutics company enabled by AI.
We’re announcing an oversubscribed $82M Series A co-led by @OrbiMed, @8vc, and @5amVentures with participation from @Lux_Capital and @Wing_VC.
Full announcement 👇
businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Very proud and super excited to see you push new boundaries and make a change to those living with rare diseases!
Ten years ago, I joined @PalantirTech because the problems felt impossible to ignore. Deploying software for mission-critical systems in life sciences and aerospace where failure wasn’t abstract. That weight shaped how I think about work.
I’m bringing that same weight to something new.
Today, we’re announcing @MendraInc with $82 million to acquire, develop, and commercialize therapies for rare diseases. These conditions affect millions of people, yet most still have no approved treatment and are often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. Many of these conditions present in childhood.
Becoming a parent made this personal. It sharpened the stakes. Rare disease development and commercialization is a systems problem. Advances in data orchestration and AI now make it possible to identify patients and accelerate delivery of therapeutics in ways that simply weren’t feasible years ago.
Immensely grateful to my Palantir family for the last decade, and to the team I’m building with at @MendraInc. Let’s go!
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Keith Siew retweeted
23 Jul 2025
Great interview on our exciting #aging intervention by @CarinaCarlaKern @KeithSiew! #longevity #innovation #biotech
23 Jul 2025
A Revolutionary New Drug Could Stop Your Cells From Self-Destructing—And Hit the Pause Button on Aging popularmechanics.com/science…
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27 Mar 2025
Thanks again to @NASAGeneLab and all the co-authors for all their incredible work. It was a pleasure to be involved with the work, major props the joint first authors, Rebecca Finch and Geraldine Vitry, and of course the Senior PI, Willian da Silveira.
@RenalUCL @ucl @SalfordUni
27 Mar 2025
Check our latest paper on the mouse strain-specific spaceflight-induced changes in kidney gene expression after flying🚀 to the ISS🛰️.
nature.com/articles/s41526-0…
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Keith Siew retweeted
25 Mar 2025
New API 🎉 for all omics, phenotypic, imaging, physiological, biomedical, and behavioral data in the NASA Open Science Data Repository 🎉
25 Mar 2025
🚀 The OSDR Biological Data API is transforming access to GeneLab & ALSDA datasets, making data retrieval faster & easier than ever. 🔍✨ Now with interactive in-browser viewers & advanced filtering! #OpenScience #SpaceBiology #OSDR
🔗 Explore now: tinyurl.com/5aanfm8k
ALT Image of the new OSDR API splash page.
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Keith Siew retweeted
21 Mar 2025
Thanks @politico for interview and coverage about our plan for long-duration missions and new biological twin/iPSC studies: politico.com/newsletters/dig…
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Keith Siew retweeted
19 Mar 2025
Check out @KeithSiew on @theldnstandard
#TheStandard #TechScienceDaily Podcast talking about the health consequences of #spaceflight and what an #AstronautsReturn can expect to do recover their health.
podfollow.com/tech-science-d…
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20 Mar 2025
Thanks to @rhiannon_hopley for having me on the 6:30pm @itvnews last night to make a short appearance about the impacts of #spaceflight on #AstronautsReturn.
@RenalUCL @LTubularCentre @ucl @spacegovuk @NASA
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Keith Siew retweeted
19 Mar 2025
LIVE | After 9 months aboard the #ISS, astronauts #SunitaWilliams and #ButchWilmore return to Earth! What challenges await? | @srinitvtn | @nishapsekar
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=TytqfhPC…
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Keith Siew retweeted
17 Mar 2025
I, along with @mason_lab, were interviewed in the latest Salon news article on the impact of prolonged space missions.
Check out the full article here: salon.com/2025/03/15/nasa-as…
@PittResearch
#SpaceBiomedicine #AstronautHealth #Microgravity #Mitochondria
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10 Mar 2025
Just out: @ExpPhysiol Editorial by @CarinaCarlaKern and I on the opportunities for innovation in space biology research.
Also checkout our keynote panel with @DamianMBaileyEP on this topic at @SpaceCommExpo Wed 12th March:
space-comm.co.uk/session/the…
@LinkGevity
@RenalUCL
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Keith Siew retweeted
6 Mar 2025
📢Read our latest paper in the #Journal of Experimental Physiology🚀“Beyond the #horizon: Why #space biology is the next great #innovation opportunity” 🚀🧬🧬
🔗 lnkd.in/eVYvTypU
📖 co-authored by Dr @KeithSiew (@ucl)
@BabrahamUK @LinkGevity
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Keith Siew retweeted
7 Feb 2025
🚨Booking Open🚨
UCL’s Applied Renal Physiology Course (14-16 May 2025) is now open for registration!
🔑 3 days of learning on electrolyte imbalances, hypertension, and fluid management.
🎓 2 Bursaries Available!
💸 Early Bird – Book by 28th Feb!
🔗 Book: ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/sear…
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Keith Siew retweeted
25 Nov 2024
25 Nov 2024
🌌🚀 Why were kidneys so big in space news this summer? Find out in this OSDR Chats interview with Dr Siew on the highlights of his publication that was part of #SOMA in the Nature press package. Spoiler: We need more research to keep astronauts safe!
🎙️ youtu.be/8Mns3KaUHy4
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Keith Siew retweeted
19 Nov 2024
Yay NASA’s Open Science Data Repository 🎉Data, metadata, standards, tools, community, publications, trainings are in new database paper in @NAR_Open 🚀 @NASAGeneLab @NASASpaceSci @mason_lab @atulbutte @cyrilzakka @moorejh @DrChrisCombs @AfshinBeheshti
🔗doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1116
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Keith Siew retweeted
12 Nov 2024
📣 Enjoy hearing Dr Siew's Open Science journey that lets you find out why he ends his interview by saying "Free samples, free data: What's not to like?" in this #OSDR Success Stories interview. #SOMA #kidney #SpaceBiology #OpenScience
🎙️ tinyurl.com/2mdp63pb
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Keith Siew retweeted
15 Nov 2024
🚀 @KeithSiew @LTubularCentre @physoc @NatureComms
🔗 Siew, K. et al. Cosmic kidney disease: an integrated pan-omic, physiological and morphological study into spaceflight-induced renal dysfunction. Nat Commun 2024. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-4…
12 Nov 2024
📣 Enjoy hearing Dr Siew's Open Science journey that lets you find out why he ends his interview by saying "Free samples, free data: What's not to like?" in this #OSDR Success Stories interview. #SOMA #kidney #SpaceBiology #OpenScience
🎙️ tinyurl.com/2mdp63pb
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Delighted to have been highlighted by @NASAGeneLab as one of the #OSDR success stories for 2024. It's been a huge joy and pleasure to get to know so many wonderful people in the space health research community. Check out the links:
youtu.be/OnP4Bcl_nCE?si=UtAu…
nasa.gov/open-science-succes…
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Keith Siew retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Unfortunately you were right. After 5 emails the councillor was unable to provide me with the details of the letter. Transparency is important and I can only assume the letter contained lies. I’m not aligned to any party but want the best for Wandsworth. Seems shady.
ALT Email: Hi Lynsey, I saw your tweet “Out delivering @wandsworth @Conservatives letters to residents in Nightingale Square and across #Balham. We are asking residents to oppose Labour’s potential 25% single-person council tax hike!” and as I tweeted I’d love to read your letter. Can you share it with me please? I’m a single occupant resident in Wandsworth Balham, and concerned about this. Can you give me more details please.
ALT Email: Official Thanks Mr Gallagher. The Government decided not to go through with removing the 25% discount for single occupants. So good news! Best regards, Cllr Lynsey Hedges Conservative Councillor for Balham
ALT Email: That's great news, thanks for letting me know. Can you share the details of the letter you were posting please? Are there other campaigns you’re leading at the moment? Take care. Paul
ALT Email: Hi Paul, Thank you for your email. Sorry I’m unable to share the letter you are referring to. From time to time, we carry out local and national campaigns. I’m afraid I don’t have any details that I can share at this time. Kind regards, Lynsey Cllr Lynsey Hedges Conservative Councillor for Balham
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Keith Siew retweeted
29 Oct 2024
Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍
@NIH has released a library of 500 free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations!
all freely available in the public domain.
Retweet and spread the message!
bioart.niaid.nih.gov/
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