David West
@davidwest_irl
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Using computers to fight cancer. Founder & CEO @Proscia. Pathology deserves great software.
Joined January 2013
Today we announced @insightpartners $50M investment in Proscia, alongside AI Capital, Triangle Peak Partners, and more. Thank you to the team to made this happen!. We're <1% of the way towards our mission. Come help us rewire pathology for precision medicine.
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I wish Sam Harris was on here so I could tag him like a fanboy.
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Ozempic violates many narratives. The ultimate one is that of free will. Turns out motivation is not intrinsic. You can take a drug and change it.
I think it's pretty clear:. Anti-Ozempic commentary like 'it destroys muscle!' and 'it causes every cancer!' is almost entirely *not* derived from people making evidence-based claims. It's people saying what they hope to be true, because they don't want the drugs to work.
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"The future of healthcare does not lie with $hims. They are doing well in terms of stock, but you can't really put them on the list with an Intuitive, Philips, Sectra, Tempus, Paige, @Proscia , Ibex, Sanofi, Novo. when it comes to innovation.". Agreed.
@JasperDLT De toekomst van healthcare ligt niet bij $hims. Die doen het goed qua aandeel maar die kan je toch niet in het lijstje zetten van een Intuitive, Philips, Sectra, Tempus, Paige, Proscia, Ibex, Sanofi, Novo. als we kijken naar innovatie.
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Dennis is an amazing storyteller for the pathology community.
🎙️ For 200+ episodes, Dennis Strenk has celebrated lab professionals with the People of Pathology Podcast. We flipped the mic to hear his story — from career beginnings to podcasting insights. A must-read for anyone in the lab world 👇. 🔗 #PathTwitter
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RT @BraydonDymm: OpenAI's open source models are bringing a fundamentally new era in medical AI. We now have an o3-level model that can r….
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OpenAI is finally loosening their grip. Their reticence on open weight models allowed competitors build ecosystem moats. They woke up a war on 3 fronts - Meta's stacked team, Anthropic taking market share, and more importantly emerging Chinese competitors the benefited from a.
Just released gpt-oss: state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance. Runs locally on a laptop!
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This is important for a few reasons:.1) open weight models mean vertical AI companies can pre-train & fine-tune on domain-specific datasets, adapting the models for modalities (like pathology or clinical note-taking).2) smaller models designed for specific tasks can out-perform.
NEW: OpenAI just released gpt-oss, its first open-weight models since GPT-2. The 120B model nearly matches o3 on HealthBench, beating GPT-4o and o4-mini -- making it OpenAI’s most efficient model yet. Big step toward local, low-cost clinical AI.
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Got upgraded on my flight to LA this morning and every pathologist in 1st class had their laptops out, signing out digitally. I looked back into the rest of the plane - everyone using a microscope. Was just a very interesting observation.
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Much discourse on this app about dating, marriage, and birth rate decline. I’m reading Robert Caro’s description of the Texas hill country pre electrification (which then-freshman-congressman LBJ championed). Farm life was filled with drudgery. Literally backbreaking work for.
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RT @Indian_Bronson: AI replacing a job: radiology salaries go to zero. Ai enabling a job: radiologist paid $1M a year to make sense of visi….
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Pharma should make more money.
Lilly: The culmination of decades of research, failed attempts, and countless billions of dollars gave us a cure for some of the most prominent and pernicious diseases. Sales: ~$15 billion.Response: Drugs/Pharma are evil, kill the CEO, you are a bad person for using drugs.
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Where is pathology relative to this?.
My latest addition to my ongoing series: "There are no Radiologists left to hire at any price."
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The AIxBio summit is one of my favorite events of the year. @RS_Flinn and I chatted about image biomarkers, companion diagnostics, and all things ai in pathology for @BiotechTV.
𝐀𝐈 𝐱 𝐁𝐢𝐨 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭: @Proscia CEO @davidwest_irl describes how AI in pathology is not just helping pathologists find disease, but can also help get the right drug to the right patient. Full video:
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We are hiring!. AI Systems Integration Engineer.Full Stack AI Engineer.Senior Data Engineer.Implementation Engineer.Strategic Support Engineer.Implementation Project Manager.Clinical Customer Success Manager.Senior Director of Strategic Accounts. many more
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“If you live to 2050, you’ll live forever”. Peptides are making this more true than not. medicine is starting to feel very futuristic.
i’m so ready for the peptide revolution. it’s quietly happening. soon it’ll be a loud explosion.
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Fun fact: the NYSE showcases medical devices in their entrance
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Shouting “pathology deserves great software” over commodities traders.
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pathologists always ask me how they can pay for digital pathology. my answer has changed significantly in the last year having worked with successful labs. some thoughts from our CFO in this blog.
The numbers don’t lie. #Digitalpathology is already delivering millions across our lab network–& it’s just getting started. Our CCO Arun Ananth + CFO Tom Gallo unpack the mechanics: .-AI-driven #pathology is stabilizing margins .-RWD is turning into new revenue
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In other words, "why now" "why this" & "why you" are obvious in healthcare in a way that every other GPT wrapper is not.
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