Writing

Thinking out loud.

Occasional pieces on scientific strategy, AI in research, translational infrastructure, and how discovery becomes impact.

The Atlas Is Not the Mechanism

Spatial transcriptomics builds the map. But the functional biology of a tumor lives in its proteins.

Chemical Biology Is Expanding the Proteome. AI Is Making It Usable.

The limiting factor in drug discovery is no longer access to the proteome. It is knowing what to do once you are inside it.

The AI Inflection: Out with the Old and in with the Old

AI promises to transform research. The bottleneck, as always, is data and the humans who know what to do with it.

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