Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD

Neuro-Onc fellow @UCLA | Founder, Thermeutics | Residency @UTSWNeurology | BME PhD @DukeEngineering & @GeorgiaTech | Medical @AKUGlobal

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

Cooling brain tumors. Prolonging (rodent) lives.
🧠🐭

Out in @ScienceAdvances:
https://t.co/Q4K65DZFC2

@dukeengineering @utswnews @AKUGlobal
#glioblastoma #bioengineering #medicaldevices #cancer #brain

[Startup Pakistan @PakStartup]

Sualeh Asif, a 26-year-old Pakistani from Karachi, has become a billionaire after his AI coding startup Cursor reached a $29.3 billion valuation.

A former math Olympiad participant who studied at MIT, he is now Chief Product Officer at Anysphere, the company behind Cursor. The AI-powered coding platform is widely used by global tech firms and has seen rapid growth in users and revenue.

Backed by major investors like OpenAI Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, and Google, the startup highlights Pakistan’s tech talent potential while also reflecting concerns about brain drain as top innovators build success abroad.

#PakistanTech #AI #Cursor #StartupSuccess #Billionaire #Innovation #Karachi #MIT #TechNews #Entrepreneurship

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

Did they find the first replicator?!

[Jason Sheltzer @JSheltzer]

AI is cool and all... but a new paper in @ScienceMagazine kind of figured out the origin of life?

The paper reports the discovery of a simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

@WSJopinion Fascinatingly analogous to Pakistan. PK senator @javedjabbar45 has long written many books arguing similar ideas about Pakistan and a developing Pakistani identity for its people

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

@guilleflorvs Founder -- brain implant to cool cancer

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

@shai_wininger @shai_wininger @daschreiber
I've had Lemonade for renter's for years and have some $LMND stock too but need your help getting my Tesla Y and 3 insured. Been going back and forth with your customer service for a month now and we've gotten nowhere. Please help!

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

@LibertyCappy Hmm, the folks who cannot afford a TV or plumber don't need one. However, these folks, who can't engage in our capitalist society, are still human and if they're sick they need medicine and surgery.

How do we as a society solve that?

[will o’brien @Willob]

Software creates soft men
Soft men create hard times
Hard times create hard men
Hard men create hardware
Hardware creates good times
Good times creates software

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

A brilliant team that @AleenaKhan and I had the pleasure to mentor. They took the problem and came up with their own solution!

[Bioengineering_UTDallas @bme_utd]

Join us in congratulating the UTDesign Team Wavy Baby, who won Outstanding Project at Expo for their project titled "Guidance System to Assist with Neonatal Lumbar Punctures." Thank you to their sponsor, UT Southwestern Center, for their support.

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

A stellar team and it was a true pleasure to mentor!

[Bioengineering_UTDallas @bme_utd]

Join us in congratulating the UTDesign Team Incuvation, who won Outstanding Project at Expo for their project titled "Temperature Controlled Plate Inserts for Cell Incubators." Thank you to their sponsor, UT Southwestern Center, for their support.

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

@DrAamirHameed I love how it transitions into the chorus in the 2nd one! :)

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

My new (AI generated) theme song🤯:
https://t.co/nmx8CJNCGt
https://t.co/UoW5rnUQe6

Which version is better?

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

@davidliuxyz Based in DFW, moving to LA, building a 'cooler' Neuralink. Sent you a message on LinkedIn. Would love to talk.

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

@BhavyaRShahMD @UTSWNeurology @nsaezmd Very cool work, congratulations @nsaezmd & @BhavyaRShahMD!!!

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

My mother was selected as an exceptional woman of the year! Although, I'm surprised that's news...I've known her as exceptional my whole life. <3

[Kishwar Enam @kishwarenam]

Thanks to the Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry Karachi (WCCIK) for honouring me with the Exceptional Woman of the Year 2025 award

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Do not start with fundamentals. This is an awful approach to learning.

Start with so-called "advanced" topics and ask questions until every term/concept is understood.

This is the correct, rigorous, scientific way to learn, because the advanced topics are embedded in larger, more convoluted, more abstracted constructs. This embedding is what gives the individual pieces their *meaning*.

Foundational studies have removed this embedding, and present only the isolated, sterile pieces. They have no meaning. They have no context.

The notion that students will piece together fundamentals into some eventual synthesis down the road is absolutely incorrect. It is literally information-theoretically obtuse.

Children don't learn language using pieces. They mumble *fully*. They are never not fully embracing the complexity. It is the juxtaposition between their naive attempts and the full picture that imbues their mind with learning.

Prerequisites are the dumbest approach to learning. It is utterly indefensible using any scientific argument. The basics-to-advanced directionality is diametrically opposed to how information is encoded, comprehended and used.

Prerequisites are why most computer scientists and whiteboard exam-passers can't make software themselves; they can only be cogs in a company. It's why a Princeton math PhD can write the update rule for gradient descent but can't draw the actual process with circles and lines on a damn chalkboard (true story).

Idiot level stuff because their learning was all basics to advanced. They never defined terms and concepts in an embedded fashion. It was all disconnected. Meaningless muscle memory with no understanding.

It does not work both ways. Only pieces that are seen inside the bigger picture are understood.

Do not start with fundamentals.

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

Introducing Helix https://t.co/NGIHIsRJTN via @YouTube

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

Finally became a US Citizen today! Proud to be a part of this idea, truly a "Nation of Immigrants" as the president poignantly states in his letter.

Of course, I won't forget my roots in Pakistan and continue to help uplift those in need.

But, the ideology and subsequently the paths to naturalization here contrast starkly with Pakistan.

I received my early and graduate education here. Eventually obtained a National Interest Waiver, then Green card, and now this.

[Rushna Ali @RushnaAli6]

Paving the way to cure GBM @faaizenam Thank you for presenting your work at the TNNT Symposium #2024CNS @CNS_Update @NeuroOnc @AtherEnam

[Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD @faaizenam]

@RushnaAli6 @CNS_Update @NeuroOnc @AtherEnam Thank you for the opportunity! It has been wonderful meeting so many other innovators and surgeons.