🚨 Hiring scientists to help give away money 🚨
At @open_phil, we have given away $600M in biomedical research since 2016. Now, we're expanding the team to do more.
Hiring:
* Up to 3 Senior Program Associates
* Program Officer in strep A
Remote OK, salaries in links! (thread)
Proud @open_phil could support this work (grant by
@phytophile!)
Repurposing existing drugs + making structural improvements using AlphaFold/other new computational tools increasingly looking like a powerful double-punch in several areas of medicine.
https://t.co/IUldM3GPRB
Extremely proud to find this innovative vaccine platform from Michael Fischbach at Stanford. Imagine no more jabs! Low cost and globally deployable. https://t.co/abri0MjiWr
Move over golden rice, here comes Golden Lettuce, with a whopping 30-fold increase in provitamin A! See how golden the leaves have turned with the nutrient. H.t.@Kutub_joy
https://t.co/Pc0Fd85dHx
The Science and Global Health R&D team @open_phil is partnering with @czi and others to help keep this data accessible until a longer term access plan can be developed.
There is no science without reliable data. Who pays the ongoing costs has been an issue from the beginning. This is a shared infrastructure problem but it gets treated like a “one-off” situation whenever it comes up. We need better long-term strategies. #Funding#DataScience
Full room at the BRC resources discussion #KMCB2024 by NIAID PO Brown & VEuPathDB PI Roos. Extreme dismay over global impact of NIAID decision, but sustained applause at news that VEuPathDB will return, through generosity of Fdn Adv Sci/Med, @open_phil@ChanZuckerberg Penn & UGA
Buttigieg: I’m just astonished that people who have shown zero interest on confronting child labor on any of the other 158 products listed are suddenly concerned about it
Duarte: This is about subsidizing child labor
Buttigieg: Then why didn’t you vote for the provision to move it to US soil
This is so frustrating. Millions of lives have been saved by this program. Blind litmus tests are not a rational policy approach. https://t.co/iFwJMmnIiX
We're thrilled that our team's work on the INSPECTR assay developed in partnership with @wyssinstitute researchers is now published in @NatureBiotech. This novel molecular diagnostic enables highly-accurate detection of pathogens at the point of need.
https://t.co/cq6pGEq5a1
I hope this paper gets a lot of attention. Sleeping better may be a key to reducing Alzheimer’s risk and the right type of sleep aid could make a big difference. https://t.co/33ng7Fji9A
@JacobTref@mfgrp This is an old idea but really fascinating. It could enable low cost, cold chain free vaccines that do not require a trained professional to administer. That’s truly an amazing opportunity.
Wild results, with potential applications in infectious disease too. Imagine editing TB or strep antigens into these friendly bacteria & rubbing on your skin - would you get some immunity? How long would it last? I wonder!
(We're proud supporters of @mfgrp & team at Open Phil.)
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