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Tech Tonics: David Altshuler, Physician-Scientist In Pursuit Of The New

October 7th, 2019 |
Tech Tonics: David Altshuler, Physician-Scientist In Pursuit Of The New

David Altshuler was living the academic dream as professor and human geneticist at Harvard and MIT, where he was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Broad Institute.  Yet in December 2014, he left this life to join Vertex, in continued [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Karen Hong, Turning Grad School Pain To VC Gain

June 10th, 2019 |
Tech Tonics: Karen Hong, Turning Grad School Pain To VC Gain

In graduate school, Karen Hong’s dream of becoming a biologist crashed into the inconvenient reality that she couldn’t stand working in the lab. Undaunted, Karen, pivoted into venture capital, and hasn’t looked back.

As befits a future geneticist, Karen chose [See the full post…]

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