Sandeep Patel
@innovationwonk
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PhD Nanoscientist | ex BARDA DRIVe Dir. @hhsgov | Designed in India, Made in America | @TheNASEM Policy Fellow | @kidney_x Founder | Stuck in Pasteur’s Quadrant
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Joined February 2012
Ideas matter. Write them down. Around a month ago, @calebwatney sent me a @statnews piece from @Finrow & @innovationwonk & something clicked. I had co-started the Clinical Trial Abundance initiative a few months prior, but the problem seemed intractable.
The FDA is sitting on a goldmine of drug development data — 10,000+ page dossiers detailing how drugs are designed, made, tested, and approved. Big Pharma has these in-house. Startups? Locked out. It’s time to fix that. Read my proposal for @IFP on how. https://t.co/rPrLuG7tHz
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FDA has one such huge data repository, currently locked away and sitting idle. Perhaps easily unlockable albeit with some agency creativity—idea #4 in this piece by me and @innovationwonk in @statnews last week: https://t.co/Sy4cThk7Bz
Concur. We habitually undersample (yes a part is driven by historical data acquisition challenges but those are mostly obsolete now). We also don’t SHARE data - yes I welcome people yelling at me “but we do” <- we don’t and everyone knows it! We need giant repositories of all
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Good or bad, when institutions are remade it's an opportunity for fresh new ideas to root. There's plenty of negative criticism out there—from all sides—but @innovationwonk and I jotted down some constructive ideas to throw into the mix—published here in @statnews
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China is outpacing the U.S. in biotech drug approvals, and experts warn that in a race where speed matters, America is stuck in the slow lane — held back by regulatory and operational drag.
statnews.com
“There's no reason the U.S. can't pick up the pace to match the global clinical research front-runners without compromising safety,” write Brian Finrow and Sandeep Patel.
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https://t.co/Gg8T8Z0VI9 We desperately need business model innovation in health, targeting a wide array of industries that most influence our collective health and wellbeing, not just healthcare.
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I had a lot of fun talking to @rSanti97 about my time building and leading BARDA DRIVe
BARDA has been called "pound for pound the most effective federal agency" in the response to COVID. Almost no one has heard of it. New Statecraft with @innovationwonk, on running a VC shop in the federal government.
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Watching people you love die waiting for an organ transplant is awful. Knowing that most of this death is unnecessary is even worse. Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree - we need to break up the national organ monopoly. https://t.co/QWskvI9cLL
usatoday.com
More than 100,000 Americans are on the waitlist for an organ transplant. Over 30 of them die every day. Most of this death is unnecessary.
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This is the best team USA I’ve ever seen. Brilliant touches, incredible speed, and power on the strikes. Let’s pray they can finish.
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Great example of government sparking innovation @BARDA. Next gen masks. 3 on the winners marketed. https://t.co/3Ao1yQ9dac
thehill.com
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday announced two winners in its mask innovation challenge launched more than year ago, with the agency declaring the endeavor a success due…
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There’s still time to submit for a new partnership opportunity! DRIVe is seeking innovative proof-of-concept technologies that enable on-demand manufacturing of nucleic acid vaccines at the point-of-service. For more information, please visit: https://t.co/Lp7DqlFN04
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Two mask designs have been awarded $150,000 each as winners of the #MaskInnovationChallenge Phase 2 from BARDA, @NIOSH, & @NIST. Read the #BARDAStory about the designs from winners @Air99_LLC & @ReadiMask, as well as runners-up @Flo_Mask & @LeviStraussCo: https://t.co/xTq0bp7BCj
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BARDA is seeking partnerships in various new areas of interest & is launching a new iteration of the EZ-BAA, maintaining the same opportunities for rapid research & development & includes a +Phase that will allow for additional funding opportunities. More: https://t.co/klwxb7HgFB
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Robbie Barbera w/@Nanotrap, Aarthi Narayanan, Assoc. Professor at @GeorgeMasonU, John Newby and @innovationwonk of @BARDA discuss #innovation and #funding in #biotech sponsored by @vabio.
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I hadn’t thought about it quite in this way, but the human-bicycle might be among the first ever cyborgs.
The Safety Bicycle
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Love this @BARDA #BLUEKNIGHT partnership w/@JLABS. Can’t wait to see all these seeds blossom in the coming years, not just the companies & technologies but also the PEOPLE behind them.
2 years of creating impact through #BLUEKNIGHT, our joint initiative with @BARDA! Global connections and collaboration empower our network of innovators aiming to address critical public health challenges. Subscribe to our Quarterly Blue Knight Brief ⬇️to stay updated.
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Yes, but I’m sure his mother still wishes he were a doctor instead.
"Mr Sunak swore his oath as an MP on the Bhagvad Gita..." Whatever kind of PM he is, this does seem a moment to mark. https://t.co/US7tkc90oE
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“Shockley opened Shockley Semiconductor, in Mountain View, Calif., in part to be near his elderly mother, who lived in Palo Alto” This is how Silicon Valley began. And who thinks elderly & child care doesn’t underpin the global economy & geopolitics? https://t.co/he9yvam82I
nytimes.com
Silicon chips power everything from cars and toys to phones and nukes. “Chip War,” by Chris Miller, recounts the rise of the chip industry and the outsize geopolitical implications of its ascendancy.
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Politics aside the UK Parliament is a much more popcorn-friendly & entertaining legislative body than anything the US has.
Keir Starmer - A book has been written about the prime minister's time in office, apparently it's going to be out by Christmas, is that the release date or the title? #PMQs
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The unique benefit of ECMO to treat ARDS for COVID-19 patients where mech. vent. failed is a rarely told story of the pandemic. We @BARDA #DRIVe strive to make it safer, more accessible & portable AND develop better ways to oxygenate & decarboxylate blood.
Review Article: “Extracorporeal Support for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Adults,” by @laveenamunshi, Daniel Brodie, MD, and @efan75. https://t.co/fZBN7VckcM
#MedTwitter #PulmTwitter #ARDS @ccmtoronto @UofT @uoftmedicine @ihpmeuoft @ColumbiaCCM @ColumbiaPS @nyphospital
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