founder scientist — cancer / ai | ex @ICR_London | PhD @BristolRobotLab | khalidabduljabbar.substack.c…

Joined April 2022
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things are taking a sharper turn every day in this field...
Today in @NatureNano, we report an all-RNA lipid nanoparticle (LNP) system for efficient in vivo prime editing (PE). We identify bottlenecks in transient prime editor delivery, develop a workflow for LNP optimization, and use it to rescue a mouse model of phenylketonuria. drive.google.com/file/d/1-rP… 1/12
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What a privilege to work with Ilana @IlanaSchlam and team from Dana-Farber alongside Sandra Swain. Here we looked at several TME biomarkers in HER2 from the B-41 trial.
Check out this new @Nature_NPJ study looking at AI-powered and manual assessment of #TumorInfiltratingLymphocytes in early HER2-positive #BreastCancer in NSABP B-41. 🔓pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4213… @IlanaSchlam @khalidated #TILs
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Just published @NEJM Marked and durable reduction of LDL cholesterol with one shot PCSK9 gene base editing @skathire nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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unpopular view but i wonder if there’s some truth to at least follow on investment part
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Replying to @FraserNelson
No Fraser, DeepMind was a total and utter failure at a structural level They sold for $600m to the first US company that asked They should have been the UKs first $1tn company But the follow on investment wasn’t there and the yanks snapped it up for cheap
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this:
if you’re an ai researcher you should really consider working on bio pretraining is great: data sets are big enough for interesting stuff but not so big you’re spending all your time on weird cluster optimization post training is in the age of research: the lab is the only true validation, but it’s expensive so figuring out the limits of what we can do for evals in silico is still very open question existing stuff kind of works: we have proof of life for the ability of ai to accelerate bio but there is a long way to go it feels a lot like computer vision after imagenet or nlp after the first transformers started really working if your idea works, you might get to help improve the human condition. way cooler to talk about at parties than “we pushed benchmark X for chat model Y up by 3 point”
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biomarker 🎯
yes, and clinical is the bottleneck keytruda only works in 12% of lung cancer, without the biomarker would be toast
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PathAI acquisition by Roche, ~$1Bn (~3x return on announced rapid capital, ~21x rev?) — overall, not bad at all! Congrats to the team, 10 hard years!
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very cool opportunity:
Amplify continues to build! We're looking for 1 amazing person to drive our Bio platform effort. Reach out if you: - Are unreasonably excited about AI x Bio - Would build relationships with brilliant scientists, developers, and execs - even if it wasn't your job - Have a talent for building community, content, and connection
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You only need to define revenue when you’ve been faking it.
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why UK founders go through the flip, and keep r&d talent in london:
First it was "UK wage growth is too low" 😭 Now "Rich American AI companies are paying our engineers too much and UK unicorns can no longer compete" 😭
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"sounds great do you want fda approval let's do this" 🥹🥹
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nyc dump, view from The Spiral
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Khalid Abduljabbar retweeted
When we seeded Denali the idea was to break the curse of the blood/brain barrier. It took a decade and tons of faith and money. Biotech is hard. Curing diseases is hard. This is a good summary. markets.financialcontent.com…
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houston airport @iah at 11:54pm, terminal E, TSA queue time 41 seconds
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110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life: "i never once used Microsoft Teams"
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FINALLY!!!
It's now possible to walk from Westminster to the Tower entirely along the north riverbank (only straying a few metres to go beneath bridges). First time in London's history this has been possible. Details on link londonist.substack.com/p/an-…
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the techbio specialist platform moat feels so much sweeter today, at least for now
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RT @MayorofLondon: Loving all the great London stories from the last few weeks 👇🏽 London’s been ranked a top place in the world to raise c…
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don’t mind if i do capitalize on this london tl hype: US-UK, still stealthy, $$ oversub to the teeth king’s cross, best office & team techbio (ai x cancer), end to end digital more jobs & opportunities coming very soon: jobs.case45.com jobs at case45 dot com
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ImmunoScape is pioneering innovative cancer therapies, and its upcoming clinical trials targeting pancreatic, ovarian, and mesothelioma cancers are highly encouraging. As an investor in @ImmunoScape, I hope to play a small role in helping accelerate their development. #ImmunoScapePartner
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