Similar idea in neuroscience - listen to neural spikes during task/training/experiment to help troubleshoot experiment setup and get a secondary source of info before visualizing data[0].
"For the first time" publicly shared. After the news of gene editing embryos without consent or knowledge in 2019 can we please be a little more realistic about what underpaid scientists chasing grants are willing to do and disclose?
For scientists chasing grants their currency is publications. There's little point in performing expensive experiments if you can't get a nature paper for your CV out of it.
Really interesting! A space I've thought a lot about after making the PhD-> startup transition and realizing the total lack of administrative training academic professors get (and the frustration of their students). Would love to connect and see if I can be helpful in any way!
Very surprised to see that reproduction cost was <<10% of total budget. I would assume that this would only hold for small scale biology with low variable costs and standard equipment like in vitro cell biology and computational work. A different financial approach is likely necessary for setups with high variable and fixed costs (e.g. animal and human work). Not saying it shouldn't be a required part of the funding but the speed of science changes if you need to spend 50% of your budget on reproduction.
From someone who has built sensor/tech-enabled digital health products in a variety of settings (PT/OT, sports med, neurosurgery) I think the most helpful thing for joining (or building your own) product teams is:
1) using your leverage/support staff as an MD to speed up IRB/patient testing - can be super difficult for independent teams to get access to patients even for the most basic user testing/info
2) help understand the economics of a new medical idea. Dive deep into what the current billing codes are, how they're used, and how they can be leveraged to build economic space for novel tech. As an MD you have access/influence to a lot of billing info that's closely held otherwise
#2 is pretty interesting. As a medical student, I haven't had much exposure to billing codes but that will soon change. I'll keep your idea in mind while I'm learning. Thanks for sharing!
I bought the spoon set for my aunt after meeting the founders at a senior living conference in 2014. She's used it daily since then and loves it. Sad that something so clearly useful for huge populations is not covered by Medicare at all.
The startup that can take this data and hide it behind a UI that people use WHILE THEY'RE HEALTHY and then optimize care pathways before a health issue arises will be great (although probably not a great business).
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cYnQRvFySAG8n3Hu5or44?si=9...