Jasmin Kaur
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~Policy and Bio | Past: UK Director @1daysooner; Biotech x AI @GSK; molecular biology @NIHRresearch @wellcometrust; Edtech @projectaccess_
London
Joined April 2015
Imagine a world where flu is no longer a constant, unpredictable threat. My latest piece with @RyanDuncombe on the quest for developing universal flu vaccines now live @AsimovPress From the looming threat of H5N1 to the yearly burden of winter flu, why are we still stuck in a reactive cycle—hoping that the next viral mutation doesn’t trigger the pandemic? The relentless pursuit of pan-influenza vaccines must define the next frontier in human health.
Flu pandemics have appeared every 10 to 50 years for millennia. Vaccines have been available for 80 years, but reduce infection risks by just 40% on average. How can we make "universal" vaccines that confer lifelong immunity against any strain of flu: past, present, or future?
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Constraints leading to creative reasoning was a cool approach in how India built one of the most successful and cheapest space programs (Chandrayaan-3 only cost under $75m)
I'm starting something soon. Join me in making state-of-the-art AI models for the world from 🇮🇳India.
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RT @lfschiavo: I wrote an article about how our indoor air has changed over time, and how we can do even better in the future. A great Su…
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Frontier labs are finally coming after epigenetics and Yamanaka factors (one of the great loves of my life).
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Run away from local maxima
The most tragic companies aren't the ones that fail fast. They're the ones that succeed just enough to trap talented founders for years. Making enough progress to stay alive, but never achieving escape velocity.
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This is a huge blow for the UK, which is already heavily overindexed on mRNA platforms by the way
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If chips are not the upper constraint for setting an infinite 0 to 1 loop in place, then China has just a good shot at this as anyone else (if not better)
My thoughts on China, export controls and two possible futures
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RT @AsimovPress: Flu pandemics have appeared every 10 to 50 years for millennia. Vaccines have been available for 80 years, but reduce inf…
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It was an incredible experience working with Niko and Xander on this!
It was a pleasure to help bring this essay to life. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty science of "universal flu vaccines" — and understand why they've been so difficult to create thus far — this is the article for you. Only a couple more pieces to come in Issue 05!
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As always, it was a blast working with @RyanDuncombe on this. Asimov team is incredible and to have @NikoMcCarty and @AlexandraBalwit as mentors + advisors on this piece was unmatched!
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The flu virus mutates rapidly—up to 1,000 times faster than the human genome. Annual vaccines have to predict months in advance which strains will circulate, and even the best guesses only reduce risk by 40% on average. This approach leaves us pretty vulnerable.
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For centuries, influenza has shaped history. In 1918, the Spanish flu killed up to 100 million people—5% of the global population. Earlier pandemics, from ancient Athens to 19th-century pandemics, may have been caused by flu too.
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