Kurt Thorn
@ScopeKurt
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Mastodon: [email protected]. Microscopy and DS/ML. Chief Technology Officer @ArrePath. Tweets are my personal opinion. Pronouns: he/him/his.
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2016
@dr_alphalyrae Worth noting that the molecule in question is a fairly straightforward medchem derivative of ISRIB, which was discovered at UCSF. I doubt Calico’s tech had much to do with it.
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RT @ImranSHaque: Very good post about the economics of and investor dynamics in drug discovery/biotech/techbio startups, where the hard pro…
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RT @amsikking: Thermal expansion -> a typical problem in time-lapse microscopy at high resolution. Here I measure the axial shift of the fo…
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RT @jackbutler4815: I believe James Earl Jones was the last surviving cast member from DR. STRANGELOVE (his first movie). What a career. RI…
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RT @imrat: Are you new to Cursor and looking for some tutorial videos? Here is a list of the good ones. First place to start for sure is…
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RT @emollick: I gave the “map of every European City” by itchy feet to Claude and asked it to do one for the US. Given its drawing skills,…
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RT @emollick: Right now the advantages from AI accrue to workers, not firms. As a result, they can be hard to notice (especially if you don…
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RT @phagedirectory: ePhective (San Francisco) is a newly founded #phagetherapy company started by @joeBondyDenomy (@UCSF) & Zemer Gitai (@P…
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It’s funny how moving from academia to industry changes your perspective. Looking for my second industry job I spent a lot of time asking questions about business strategy, to find a company that I thought would be successful. That never would have occurred to me in academia.
@ScopeKurt 💯 when I joined my current company when it was private and much smaller, the first thing I looked for was who they’d hired already - the concept was cool, but they’d also brought in many pharma veterans who knew how to get out the hammer and tongs and get sh*t done
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Agreed. There’s a reason VCs prefer an A team with a B idea over a B team with an A idea. Execution matters more than you think.
Second this. Pharma prioritizes action and decision-making. Scientific excellence is important, but execution is equally important. The work is iterative. Turn the crank, fail fast, learn from the failure, improve design, repeat. You can be scientifically excellent to a fault.
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RT @KRHornberger: Second this. Pharma prioritizes action and decision-making. Scientific excellence is important, but execution is equally…
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RT @statesdj: Pretty amazing how well SQL and python have withstood the test of time. Some of us will remember an old chestnut, "I don't…
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