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Biotech entrepreneur & Partner @Medicxi Advocate of virtual, asset-centric R&D. All opinions my own

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David Grainger
3 years
I do sense @borisjohnson @MattHancock are in danger of getting it wrong tomorrow. Now over-80s are vaccinated in UK we have to release essentially all #lockdown restrictions
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David Grainger
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@afneil Agreed A much better solution would be avoiding guests like the sanctimonious Chris Packham in the first place Too many minor celebrities are given a platform for their views by @BBC just because it fits their agenda
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David Grainger
4 years
HCQ is dead then. Blinding is needed to prevent biases creating a false-positive signal. For a negative study open-label random is just as powerful as double-blind...
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Andy Biotech
4 years
#COVID19 Here comes another dataset of #Hydroxychloroquine from an open-label randomized controlled trial in China No difference in 28-day #coronavirus negative conversion rate for HCQ + SOC vs SOC No difference in 28-day symptoms alleviation rate either
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David Grainger
2 years
Lesson of the day: nothing in drug R&D is ever de-risked If you want to build a PharmaCo (rather than a hedge fund leveraging binary read-outs) you have to focus on resilience to bad outcomes - NOT maximising yield from good ones We don’t see that mentality in biotech enough
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David Grainger
5 years
@IsabelOakeshott @brexitparty_uk I agree. A deal with @brexitparty_uk is the only way @BorisJohnson can go to the polls with confidence
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David Grainger
8 months
@JimBethell Perhaps I could respectfully point out that in outer London, wood burners create more PM2.5 than vehicle emissions ULEZ is a political choice not a health necessity
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David Grainger
4 years
Seems obvious we should make this adjustment @grantshapps And increase the enforcement at the same time. Make easier to comply & more painful not to - because a minority who fail can cause a lot of harm
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Professor Karol Sikora
4 years
I mean this as a genuine question @grantshapps . Surely people quarantining could be allowed out for 30 mins a day? No shops, pubs just for a socially distanced walk? Dogs would appreciate it! For those following the rules, especially with no gardens, it feels so heavy-handed.
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David Grainger
4 years
Suddenly it’s personal. Steve was one of my scientific heroes and a great mentor early in my career. I remember fondly his kindness when I found myself in Seattle - invited to share his family’s Passover feast. Truly one of a kind. RIP
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Dr. Sharona Gordon 🏳️‍🌈 🔬
4 years
We have lost Dr. Steven Schwartz to Covid19. Many know Steve as @UW professor of Pathology and director of the Cardiovascular Pathology Training Grant. It’s a sad day
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David Grainger
4 years
WARNING: PCR is INCREDIBLY sensitive. I do wish people would stop looking for #COVID19 RNA in any sample they can lay their hands on.... This is not useful information. #COVID19 RNA is everywhere. The question is: where are the infectious particles?
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Rohan Khera
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Worrying preprint: #SARSCoV2 RNA detected in ~66% of *air samples* - collected inside pt rooms & hallways. + on all surfaces. Patients w/o cough/fever. Adds to last wk's @NEJM study Risk in: - Healthcare workers NOT directly caring for #COVID19 - People in enclosed public spaces
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David Grainger
3 years
This is a bad decision The US has gone from the random stupidity of Trump to the calculated stupidity of Biden
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Ambassador Katherine Tai
3 years
These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures. The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in @WTO negotiations to make that happen.
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David Grainger
5 years
Actually guys - dont bother. Just enjoy your BBQ and remember that such easily modifiable risk factors are noise compared to your genetic risk. You will die - the only question is how much of the good life you can pack in before you do…
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Before you fire up the grill today, watch this STAT explainer on how to lower your #cancer risk at the grill. #HappyFourthOfJuly
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David Grainger
3 years
@RoyalFamily @Madz_Grant Sad to learn of the death of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, this morning He was a wonderful man, who in his role as Patron of @TheBHF I was fortunate enough to meet. His genuine engagement and passion for life was inspirational We may not see his like again
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David Grainger
2 years
Remember this is happening next time you suggest that mask-wearing is still needed “to reduce the risk of new variants” It is, and since vaccines were available, always has been performative nonsense
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David Grainger
1 year
Its absolutely right that Vinay goes to town to debunk the mask myths We need to make this battle the poster-child for evidence-led public health advice Far too much of what we were told to do during #covid lacks any evidence base whatsoever
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Vinay Prasad MD MPH
1 year
Excuses for why masking FAILED in the Cochrane Review Do we really demand confidence intervals exclude all meaningful benefits before we throw out medical practices? I investigate
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David Grainger
3 years
I got the $AZN vaccine first dose this morning - and it’s actually quite an emotional experience. It feels like a concrete step towards normality - but also for someone who has spent a career in medical research a vindication, even celebration, of the work of so many great people
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David Grainger
4 years
Its easy to look at the Italian death rates (950 in the last 24hrs) and think “the lockdown is not working”. But it is. The daily death toll (which is a 28 day lagging indicator) has been essentially flat for a week That is curve-flattening - and exactly why we must #StayHome
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David Grainger
2 years
Glad to hear someone calling out the madness of vaccinating the planet twice a year The booster obsession is because we are trying to halt transmission with a vaccine that does not rsally do that… 1/n
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David Grainger
2 years
Vinay gets it right again Politics & drug regulation are a dangerous mix - but a common cocktail in 2022
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Vinay Prasad MD MPH
2 years
Sensible people know approving vaccines for millions who mostly just had omicron based on mouse data is a. not a good idea & b. not acceptable for a company making billions Peter Marks continues to err. Gruber/ Krause would not have. FDA too political
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David Grainger
3 years
Before we start a debate on whether 94% is better than 90% let’s remember you’d need a head-to-head design to answer that - and a simply ginormous study size to show stat sig superiority $MRNA and $PFE efficacy are indistinguishable
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David Grainger
4 years
This is interesting (to me at least) because it’s an effect we predicted almost 20 years ago now Following thread explains exactly why this is what you’d expect 1/n (H/T @manal_mehta )
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John Nosta
4 years
A = Higher Risk. O = Lower Risk Potential relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility (From 3 Wuhan hospitals) #COVID19 #coronavirus
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David Grainger
4 years
@emilyhewertson Never. Socialism is a flawed concept - so they would have to abandon their founding principle which seems impossible
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David Grainger
3 years
After mininterpreting data on the need for a booster, we are now seeing data like this misinterpreted as a need for boosters Its always going to be true that you have more efficacy for a month or two after a booster while neutralising Abs are high - but its the wrong comparison
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David Grainger
3 years
Watching the fall-out from the $AZN/Oxford #covid vaccine data this morning (including the initial drop in $AZN share price) is an object lesson in interpreting clinical data (1) The headline 70% efficacy may be misleading (2 regimens, one of which is ~90% effective) 1/n
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David Grainger
3 years
If anyone who follows me is doubtling whether they should get the $AZN/Oxford vaccine when its offered to them, perhaps worried by the questions over efficacy… DO NOT HESITATE! The risk of not being vaccinated is FAR higher
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David Grainger
4 years
Ok. If you only read one thing about #coronavirus make it this: If you doubt whether you need to act now, or think some people are over-reacting read this ( @FrederickFredr3 I’d be interested what you think having read it)
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David Grainger
3 years
Its interesting that the people now calling for or considering a patent waiver for #covid vaccines were completely silent this time last year when companies were investing billins and working like crazy to discover and develop those precious vaccines
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David Grainger
3 years
Its obviously impractical to boost everyone every 6 months to keep neutralising Ab titres high (and so have maximal protection against harmless transmission) So what we are seeing happen is well short of Evidence-Based Medicine
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David Grainger
3 years
So Im a bit late to the party with by big news for the day… been too busy actually doing the job! But I'm nevertheless super excited to tell everyone I’m moving into a full-time role at Centessa $CNTA, working with @SaurabhSahaMD and team as Chief Innovation Officer
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David Grainger
4 years
$AMRN story is a great lesson for entrepreneurs & investors... if you can’t protect your idea you will suffer a fate more painful than failure: being right & watching everyone else harvest the benefits!
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David Grainger
3 years
The issue is not the adverse events, but our heightened sensitivity to them If we are going to have this much debate over every few-in-a-million event, then we would never approve another drug
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David Grainger
3 years
Perhaps some of the people signing petitions against “vaccine passports” would like to explain the problem with them to me? Because I think they are an excellent idea. Since everyone is being offered a vaccine, I fail to see how tying freedom to compliance is discriminatory
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David Grainger
3 months
@Tom_Slater_ @LozzaFox A perfect summary of where we going wrong in the West Tolerance of things that should never be tolerated; and a demonisation of the petty, the stupid and the personal opinion we are entitled to hold and express (even if other people dont like it)
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David Grainger
5 months
How can this be happening? Even if @DrMJoyner were wrong (which he likely is not), this would still be utterly wrong-headed. Here we have a principled capable scientist saying what they believe to be true - if we cannot protect his right to do that, we are lost
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Ash Paul
5 months
@MayoClinic punishes Prof @DrMJoyner for saying that transgendered athletes have an advantage due to testosterone while building a new 5 billion dollar campus: The love of money has destroyed the love of knowledge via @VPrasadMDMPH
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David Grainger
2 years
The future of drug design are “smart” biologics - proteins, usually antibodies, engineered to deliver activity in the right place at the right time It will be these agents, not gene or cell therapies or gene editing that dominate the 2040 medicine cabinet
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David Grainger
3 years
What is very noticeable is just how BIG these molecules are getting. It may allow access to interesting pharmacology but it will create huge (unassailable?) hurdles in development as drugs for many of them
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Dennis Hu
3 years
Small Molecules of the Month - Apr. 2021 | This month: An inhibitor that "glues" KRAS to cyclophilin A A targeted protein stabilizer An RNA-modifying enzyme inhibitor Wild! #chemtwitter #biotwitter
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David Grainger
3 years
This is an interesting statement Whether its true, depends on what you believe “getting out of this” needs to look like But 5-12yo are not cattle who should be vaccinated to “get us out of” anything. It is hard to argue it is the interest of the INDIVIDUAL child
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David Grainger
6 years
As Musk accuses unnamed employee of sabotage the parallels with the months before the fall of Theranos are getting scarily real $TSLA
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David Grainger
4 years
Three leading vaccine candidates (Oxford/$AZN, $PFE/$BNTX and $MRNA) all need a booster - dont lets under-estimate the logistical challenge of getting a material fraction of the population vaccinated ONCE. Two doses is twice the logistical challenge
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David Grainger
1 year
A short thread on de novo hit generation in small molecule drug discovery I’m lucky enough to see first hand 10+ programs a year against different, mostly novel, targets - and there are some clear trends emerging about the best approaches 1/n
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David Grainger
4 years
@ProfKarolSikora A few idiots flouting the rules makes headlines - but actually transmission of the virus depends on what the MAJORITY do And all around me, I see people acting very sensibly
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David Grainger
2 years
Just a few words of caution on the impact Deepmind and Alphafold can have on drug discovery (And to be clear I am incredibly impressed scientifically by what the team has done - this is not “criticism”, more “caveat emptor") A 🧵 1/n
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David Grainger
3 years
Very interesting - and perhaps the best news of all - that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was equally effective in the over-65s For me, it was always highly likely many of the #COVID vaccines would work in younger people, but less certain in the older, most vulnerable population
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David Grainger
2 years
Drug R&D is a LONG game You win not by being faster at any given point, but by making fewer mistakes Doing it BETTER nearly always trumps doing it FASTER Hence more resources can actually damage progress by going so fast you dont have time to think / miss the warning signs
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David Grainger
6 months
With the ground-breaking approval of Casgevy, the first CRISPR-based therapeutic, by @MHRAmedicines to treat beta-thalassemia its worth reflecting that CRISPR was only discovered in 2012 That only 11 years from first discovery to first approved medicine Impressive! $VRTX $CRSP
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David Grainger
4 years
One in five deaths worldwide due to  #sepsis - Thats more than all cancers combined. Are your R&D priorities correctly aligned?
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David Grainger
10 months
@kelvmackenzie First rule of insurance - there’s always an exclusion buried in the small print for any event that actually happens
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David Grainger
4 years
It’s quite amusing how much optimism there seems to be about finding treatments for #COVID19 in a hurry. Worth remembering just how little progress we have made in a century looking for treatments for respiratory viruses (common cold, flu, RSV etc)
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David Grainger
2 years
Today would have been my dad’s 90th birthday Unfortunately he died suddenly in 1987 at the age of 55 with a massive myocardial infarct secondary to CHD Seems like a great moment to celebrate the progress we’ve made at saving others from the same fate
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David Grainger
11 months
@VPrasadMDMPH @DrMJoyner @nytimes Completely agree. This is truly shocking. What he said is factually accurate - how can society tolerate academic institutions attempting to silence academic opinions?
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David Grainger
4 years
All this discussion about whether couples who live apart can see each other or kids with separated parents can move between them is a complete red herring These have irrelevant effects on median connectivity. While we are running packed tube trains, leave these people alone
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David Grainger
3 years
I wish we had more insight into WHERE these 50,000 people a day are getting infected… Is it at work? In the home, from relatives, or through illegal household-mixing? The fact we seem to have NO IDEA worries me
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David Grainger
3 years
Lots of people highlighting pessimistic estimates of duration of protection for #COVID vaccines - but the facts guides us in the opposite direction: Im optimistic for multi-year duration of protection Why? 1/n
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David Grainger
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What is striking about this is how SMALL the increase in odds of success is (2.6x is a small gain really) And all the biggest drugs of the 21st Century have no real genetic target validation (statins, Plavix, Humira, PD(L)1s, Comirnaty, GLP1s and others)
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Marios Georgakis
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Update on impact of genetic support for drug targets on probability of clinical development success @Nature 👉2.6x higher odds of success 👉higher odds across all therapeutic areas 👉discovery of potential targets through genetics still not saturated
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David Grainger
5 years
Nice illustration of the impact of cheap capital: average size of VC investment rounds in biotech has gone up almost 400% in just five years! Returns will likely decline by a similar factor - so watch out for the pain when capital cost eventually normalises
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Evaluate Pharma
5 years
Did you know 37 drug developers raised more than $100m apiece last year? More than double the number doing so in 2017 - find out more in the Vantage 2018 Review: #pharma #VC
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David Grainger
3 years
I wonder how many failures it will take before $SRPT and their investors read my QJM Editorial from 2000 () It summarises the data that by the time muscle weakness manifests it is no longer driven by the lack of dystrophin
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David Grainger
5 years
I view deep understanding of statistics (ie deeper than that of those generating the data) as THE core competency of a biotech investor. It’s the only guide we have as to which “facts” to believe and which to ignore
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David Grainger
2 months
Very striking how “flat” (Ph1 = Ph2 = Ph3) all these pipelines are considering the inevitable attrition rates. Shows just how dependent pharma has become on clinical-stage acquisitions
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Largest Pharma Pipelines by # of Programs
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David Grainger
5 years
Dear Tory rebels: while no-deal #brexit MAY hit house prices, be in no doubt that a Corbyn government would destroy them (and NATO and much else you value besides…). Even if you fear no deal, it is better than any of the alternatives…
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David Grainger
3 years
As a VC, biotech operator AND exec chairman of a CRO ( @RxCelerate ) Id say these broad estimates of costs for out-sourciong key activities from @celinehalioua is pretty accurate - useful for those setting up a virtual/semi-virtual biotech (h/t @simonbayly )
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David Grainger
4 months
@drrichjlaw I dont think it’s the specifics that matter - it is hard to argue that the #NHS is well managed from any vantage point. But the failure to engage with @ProfKarolSikora over re-opening Rutherford Centres but not address so much waste is negligence bordering on criminal
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David Grainger
3 years
The obsession with “advanced therapeutics” particularly in the UK annoys me… Theres nothing intrinsically valuable about doing something complicated. It does NOT make up for a lack of understanding of biology, which is the fundamental limitation on better therapeutics
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David Grainger
6 years
Am I the only one horrified by the sheer weight of capital flowing into biotech start-ups, as $50+m Series A’s become commonplace?
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David Grainger
5 months
I couldn’t disagree with this assessment more. Every biotech does all of these things It is a tag laden with hubris and hype and serves no other useful purpose
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Jacob Kimmel
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recently changed my mind: techbio firms are a distinct species from biotechs, not just a rebrand classification rules: - use an in silico model & internal data corpus to develop otherwise intractable products - explore hypotheses that maximize upside, rather than optimizing for…
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David Grainger
5 years
Not sure whether to be happy or sad that my @forbeshealth post about my January diet () has attracted more page-impressions in 12hrs than anything I ever wrote about biotech! #DrugBaron
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David Grainger
4 years
As VCs we see way more poorly designed clinical trials than good ones - in normal times without pressure to act quickly Not optimistic about the quality of many of the #COVID19 trials now underway, sadly Bad data arguably worse than none
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David Grainger
3 years
The speed of therapeutic innovation cominhg from RECOVERY trial is sensational! This should be the model for every common disease from heart disease to Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis to IBD Nothing would accelerate innovation for patients faster. Who’s going to be first?
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Peter Horby
3 years
⏩ New RECOVERY trial result. Monoclonal antibody combination reduces deaths in seronegative patients hospitalised with COVID-19. - 9785 patients randomised - primary analysis population 3153 patients without own SARS-CoV2 antibodies detectable at randomisation (seronegative)
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David Grainger
6 years
Biggest concern is all this hype makes people focus on anti-amyloids again. Let’s remember even if replicated in Ph3 this is a paltry effect size. We still need to re-double our efforts on non-amyloid approaches to #AD $BIIB
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David Grainger
4 years
I do think healthcare professionals need to be particularly careful. It seems clear that severe symptoms result from high viral load. If the virus gets to very high copy number before your adaptive immune response kicks in you are at very high risk if ARDS 1/n
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David Grainger
7 years
If you only read one thing the week, make it this: Superb @BMJ_latest piece by @scarlettmcnally on exercise & ageing
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David Grainger
6 years
I found this so depressing. Why on earth would anyone not want their DNA to contribute to future medical advances? Think of it as a charitable donation. And to link it to the drug price debate is stupid and misleading
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David Grainger
5 years
Ok - so here it is... Divide & Conquer emerges from stealth to bring the concept of “cellular social networks” to oncology
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BioCentury
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How new @Medicxi company Divide & Conquer, co-founded by @sciencescanner , aims to capitalize on new biology that could prevent cancer cells from sharing resistance mechanisms via multicellular networks
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David Grainger
3 years
Picture is much more complex, and we dont yet have all the information needed to judge how this will shake down But we do already know the Oxford/$AZN vaccine is likely to be an important component of the world-wide battle against #COVID - & possibly even the MOST important part
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David Grainger
4 years
Instead of all the focus on hydroxychloroquine - does it work or doesn’t it? - let’s focus on comparing strategies in critical care of #COBID19 lung disease. Proning plus inhaled NO versus CPAP maybe? Cheap quick RCT might save way more lives than a drug...
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David Grainger
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But still not as well (or certainly no better) than a six-monthly injection of inclisiran So the question I still havent got my head round is WHY? Minor convenience seems a very poor reason for altering your genome and accepting even a theoretical risk of off-target edits
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Wei Zhao
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In vivo base editing works in humans! Congratulations to @KomorLab , @NicoleGaudelli , and @davidrliu for advancing gene editing science and inventing base editing technology! Great work by both the @BeamTx team and the Verve team to make it happen! @skathire and @ambellinger 👏🎉
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David Grainger
4 years
“US buys almost all world’s upcoming supply of remdesivir” Not a problem - we, in the UK, will stick with dexamethasone - since that actually works! Cheaper too...
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David Grainger
4 years
I wouldnt pay $1. If a simple genetic change was net beneficial evolution would have found it before science… This kind of discussion belies the extent to which we misunderstand the nature of ageing
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4 years
Would you pay $1 million for an unproven, untested anti-aging gene therapy?
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David Grainger
6 years
On my way to Paris to meet a team working on an intriguing approach to curing (yes, curing) all solid tumor types. Without doubt most exciting science I’ve seen in decades. Watch this space
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David Grainger
6 years
“The Cult of DNA-centricity” My latest post @ForbesHealth tries to explain why the genome is not the answer
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David Grainger
2 years
Once we acceot that we are vaccinating to prevent severe disease / death, and NOT in some vain chase to #zerocovid , then we can stop boosting Oh, and with a nice mild, transmissable #omicron around, eveeryone will get a “natural” boost anyway! 3/3
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David Grainger
5 years
Please read. Ive been saying this for years - but a lot less eloquently!
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Jason Sheltzer
5 years
Let’s play a little game. Let’s say that you’re the CSO at a cancer pharma company, and you have to choose a target to go after. Here’s a gene – high expression is associated with poor prognosis in brain cancer. Looks like a good candidate for an inhibitor right?
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David Grainger
3 years
@VPrasadMDMPH Stamp collecting?
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David Grainger
1 year
Nice study of biases at work…
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Vinay Prasad MD MPH
1 year
Our new preprint follows the top 10 newspapers before and after COVID when they give advice on avoiding the FLU Guess what? Masks suddenly are in vogue, but weren't prepandemic. New data? Not at all-- Just new biases
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David Grainger
3 years
But there is no data that I have seen showing that the ability of the memory response to protect against severe illness/death has declined at all with time Without such evidence, there is no justification for general use of boosters
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David Grainger
2 years
@BBCBreaking So Sturgeon re-enstates large crowds outdoors in Scotland from Monday - effectively admitting the Scottish (and Welsh) Governments got this badly wrong in the first place I wonder if there will be an apology?
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David Grainger
4 years
I’m sorry? Observational studies report ASSOCIATION- RCTs require CAUSATION. A negative result from an (appropriately designed) RCT tells you the association observed was spurious (confounded). What do the 43% think these study types show???
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C. Michael Gibson MD
4 years
Do negative findings in a randomized trial reverse the positive findings from observational data?
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David Grainger
4 years
Huge pat on the back for Sanofi/Regeneron in delivering a high quality study of anti-IL6R in #COVID19 lung disease. The drug doesnt do anything, but at least we know that for sure
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David Grainger
3 years
I cant be the only one annoyed by the utterly pointless “Accept” box that pops up on every website you visit for cookies that you have to accept to access the content I must accept a hundred a day Whoever thought such a law benefited users was living in Narnia
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David Grainger
3 years
Enjoyed my first experience of @BiotechCH last night. @cngarabedian @daphnezohar @bradloncar deliver a great mix of info sharing and debate. As I said at the end “I’ll be back!”
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David Grainger
2 years
@TheBHF And lets recognise the greatest source of that gain: statins This is a triumph for the pharma industry much bigger than the #covid vaccine triumph (with >100x the number of early deaths avoided So I raise a glass in memory of my dad & in honour of our great pharma industry
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David Grainger
5 years
So here is my first attempt at an oil painting: Struie Hill Overlooking the Dornoch Firth
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David Grainger
6 years
Big congratulations due to @MedicxiKevin @J_S_Edwards as Celgene acquire @Medicxi portfolio co Impact for $7B: $CELG
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David Grainger
5 years
@JohnCendpts @AndyBiotech Really surprised you say that John - I think @andybiotech has been pretty objective actually. There’s so much thoughtless pumping/flaming on biotwitter - but this wasn’t anything like that. In fact been one of my fav accounts on here this past few years...
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David Grainger
4 years
Wondering why we haven’t got a serology test for #COVID19 in widespread use yet? #DrugBaron looks at why it’s such a challenge and why rushing out a poorly-characterised assay would dangerously muddy the waters rather than provide much-needed clarity:
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David Grainger
3 years
Really struggling to see how @US_FDA can need til 10th December to decide on EUA for $PFE vaccine… Surely they have already done all the work on the CMC package, and all thats left is to review the Ph3 safety and efficacy data? Hard to see why that cant be done in a week...
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David Grainger
4 years
Dear @bbchealth - “antibodies fall rapidly after #covid infection” is not headline news, just GCSE biology. You don’t churn out Abs to an infection you no longer have... you just retain immunological memory Articles like yours misinform & mislead
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David Grainger
3 years
Most of the excitement around KRAS inhibitors stems from their prior status as “undrugable” rather than their stellar clinical activity The jury is out as to how much these “holy grails” might yet turn out to be damp squibs
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David Grainger
8 months
My thoughts exactly @Erictopol is not a scientist (or at least not an honest one) - but by masquerading as one, does a lot of damage
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Vinay Prasad MD MPH
8 months
John Mandola and Eric Topol are both cardiologists Yet, John is able to actually read a paper in @LancetRespirMed on MR post Covid and explain why it is worthless on todays @Sensible__Med , while Eric just keeps tweeting sensationalist & inaccurate summaries of articles.
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David Grainger
3 years
Quite And they are not “free”. In addition to financial costs, they create a culture of fear and non-normality. Doing things on a hunch made sense 18months ago as we learned about #covid - today, we need evidence and proper cost:benefit assessments
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Wes Pegden
3 years
@VPrasadMDMPH @mgtmccartney @jeangra99179111 @drjohnm This is a good time to remember that we have not trialed *any* school mitigation measures in the U.S.; HEPA filters, testing policies, quarantine policies, pods, NOTHING. This is not what taking something seriously looks like.
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