SCI PHI
A newsletter for breakthrough scientists, visionary philanthropists, and innovators navigating through a pivotal moment for discovery.
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Building the Bridge from Innovation to Impact: Philanthropy’s Unique Role (opens the original)
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The most promising innovations don’t fail because they’re bad ideas; they die between lab result and patient benefit, where no market incentive exists to fund validation studies, regulatory navigation, or clinical adoption. Co-authors Orin, Kyle, and Kumar make the case for philanthropy to play a strong role as a systems integrator across the full “Innovation-to-Impact Bridge”. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!diCT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_
Kalil’s Corner: Developing targeted therapies at the Deliverome Project - A Q&A with Becca and Bobby (opens the original)
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Kalil’s Corner: The Cross-Survey Decade of Astrophysics – A Q&A with Dr. Gioia Rau (opens the original)
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Kalil's Corner: Business Plan Competitions for Multi-Sector Collaborations (opens the original)
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Kalil’s Corner: The Role of Philanthropy in Identifying and Pursuing AI Moonshots (opens the original)
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Welcome to Kalil’s Corner, a new SCI PHI newsletter we’re launching to bring you reflections, ideas, musings, and proposals from Tom Kalil. Tom has a higher-than-average ability to get excited about other people’s ideas. From the White House to working with Eric Schmidt, and now CEO of Renaissance Philanthropy, Tom has worked with scientists and innovators to design and launch dozens of initiatives such as the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the BRAIN Initiative, federal use of incentive pri
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