Matthew P. Cheng

ID physician & microbiologist by training; renegade but not insurrectionist. Co-founder and CEO of @kanvasbio. Opinions my own. He/him.

[kanvasbio @kanvasbio]

What a brilliant Science Day 2023! We are so grateful for the team, partners, and investors who made it all possible and we look forward to Kanvas Bio's 2024 development and discoveries.
Read about Science Day 2023 here:
https://t.co/0FNCqgJ5lI

[kanvasbio @kanvasbio]

We are thrilled to share that our website has officially launched! It was a ton of fun collaborating with One Design Company to create a site that truly captures the groundbreaking science Kanvas works to develop.
Check us out at https://t.co/AAP3Xw2jfd

[Matthew P. Cheng @MatthewPCheng]

Appreciate being able to share our story with @GabrielleMasso9 who reported the news in @FierceBiotech

https://t.co/xv8DWAq3Ej

[Matthew P. Cheng @MatthewPCheng]

Incredibly happy to share that Kanvas Biosciences has acquired specific assets from Federation Bio to scale the discovery, development and manufacturing of microbiome-based therapeutics
https://t.co/kddvnCzsUy #jobs

[DCVC @DCVC]

.@DCVC-backed @kanvasbio has just gained strength in its work to bring better microbiome therapies to market.

More from @DCVC General Partner @jason_pontin. 👇
https://t.co/pg2arOf7rG

[Jason Pontin @jason_pontin]

DCVC portfolio Kanvas Biosciences (@kanvasbio), which has pioneered a spatial biology platform that can profile host-microbiome interactions, announces that it has acquired Federation Bio's assets to become a clinical-stage drug company. My article here: https://t.co/vtAeFQVaYP

[kanvasbio @kanvasbio]

A nice summary of our company and field from @jason_pontin and @DCVC . We're excited to chart new territory with them! https://t.co/Wzn0jvlRyG

[Pearl Freier @PearlF]

Princeton, NJ-based microbiome mapping technology @Kanvasbio raised $12M pre-Series A led by @DCVC. Proprietary single-cell spatial transcriptomics platform. CEO/co-founder is microbiologist & ID doc @MatthewPCheng. Board director @jason_pontin wrote: https://t.co/4QcL4HGnjz

[kanvasbio @kanvasbio]

We're excited to announce the funding of our Pre-Series A round, led by @DCVC ! With the additional funding, we will expand our platform to revolutionize the field of microbiome therapeutics. https://t.co/iJXBXUABBk

[Iwijn De Vlaminck @IwijnDeVlaminck]

I have exciting news to share - @kanvasbio founded by @haoiseetheworld, @MatthewPCheng and me, has secured pre-series A funding. Congrats to the brilliant team at Kanvas, and huge thanks to our investors, mentors, friends and supporters! @dcvc @CornellBME
https://t.co/xG2qkY3BPH

[Emily Weiss, PhD @emilycpierce]

How do we know who is where in a mixed microbial community? Metagenomics tells us who, but it doesn't give us spatial info. Enter HiPR-FISH! 🎉🧀🔬

Check out our pub (https://t.co/dQ4YThhzMC) describing our application of HiPR-FISH to cheese microbiomes @ArcadiaScience 🧵[1/5]

[Michael Fischbach @mfgrp]

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent immune response against a distant tumor. @yerinchen led the charge w/ help from @DjenetBousbaine, @VeinbachsA, @BelkaidLab. @ScienceMagazine 1/26
https://t.co/bgW3C7CJgh

[Matt Rickard @mattrickard]

"Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run?"

Mathematician and computer scientist Richard Hamming sought the answer to this question later in his career. He had been lucky enough to work on "the right problems" (his work set the stage for information theory) and he was lucky enough to work with great scientists who also worked on "the right problems" (like Claude Shannon, Richard Feynman, and Robert Oppenheimer).

One of Hamming's most accessible legacies is a seminar he gave in his later years as a professor, titled "You and Your Research". He breaks down his observations.

• Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create a new replacement theory.

• Creativity comes out of your subconscious. So keep your subconscious starved, so it has to work on your problem, so you can sleep peacefully and get the answer in the morning, free.

• Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. Given two people of approximately the same ability and one who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former.

• Drive gets you far. But, the steady application of effort with a little bit more work intelligently applied is what does it.

• When an opportunity opens up, great scientists get after it and pursue it. They drop all other things. They get rid of other things, and they get after an idea because they had already thought the thing through.
He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.
It isn't what you do. It's the way that you do it.

• The essence of science is cumulative. Therefore, you should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it, so they will indeed say, 'Yes, I've stood on so and so's shoulders, and I saw further.'

• It is a poor workman who blames his tools - the good person gets on with the job, given what they have, and gets the best answer they can.

• Luck favors the prepared mind. There's an element of luck, and there isn't.

[kanvasbio @kanvasbio]

Kanvas is excited to announce a series of new job postings! We’re looking to bring in people who are passionate about biotech and looking to make a transformative impact through microbiome analysis! Please see the attached postings.

[Matthew P. Cheng @MatthewPCheng]

Thrilled to see this work on #cfDNA in #HCT patients come out in @PNASNews

@AlexandrePCheng you did a fantastic job leading this effort.

@FranciscoMarty_ I hope we did you proud.

https://t.co/Z7W95x4lQI

[Isabelle Malhamé @IsabelleMalhame]

For my peers who are leaving academia starting 2022, and who are happy about their decision and thriving:

☀️ I am so, so happy and proud for you. You deserve nothing but the best.

❤️ But also, I will miss you, very much, more than you can ever imagine.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock.

Do you support this?

[Sexy Soulaan 💜💛 @jaesofamous]

This is the best explanation of the Covid Vaccine I’ve ever heard.

[Zack Czajkowski @ZackCz]

If 100,000 people retweet this my girlfriend said we can get a French Bull Dog and name it Pickle. This is not a drill.

[Iwijn De Vlaminck @IwijnDeVlaminck]

@MatthewPCheng @cfDNAlex We are all very proud. Well done Alex!