@AndrewHessel Pink Army Cooperative: a drug company for everyone #oss2010
Jul 31, 2010
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Microbes are a kind of robust, self-repairing replicating computer w/ 4.6 Mbit OS.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Old way of genetic engineering was like cut & paste w/ scissors & glue. Now have DNA printing w/ DNA 2.0, Blue Heron.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Chairs biocomputing & biotech @ Singularity University. How to accelerate pace of change?
- Ruchira S. Datta
IGEM: synthetic biology w/ summer students. This is fun!
- Ruchira S. Datta
When do we get serious? It can be playful, but when do we develop drugs? Synthetic Genomics is $1B company.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Biofab in Bay Area: will be Kinko's of biotech.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Everyone has small cancers all the time: corruption & degradation of genetic material.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Pathologist's diagnosis was like looking at someone's face to study their genes.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Cancer is very slow-growing.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Antibiotics work against bacteria: 4B years of evolutionary distance, many compounds affect them and not you.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Every cancer is max (your age) years evolutionary distance away from you, and is unique. Evolves resistance just like antibiotic resistance.
- Ruchira S. Datta
One size fits all drugmaking does not make sense with cancer. Lot of inertia in industry--tuned for blockbusters.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Paper in Nature Reviews: 50 years of innovation, no acceleration in pharma.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Populations for good statistics--why? Test tailored drug cheaply, try it, iterate.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Formed cooperative, Pink Army, $20 a share. Focus on breast cancer. Change business model: Linux of cancer.
- Ruchira S. Datta
A little light on details, but $20? I can do that.
- Mr. Gunn
Transcript of Hessel's talk: http://gnusha.org/transcr...
- Karthik Raman