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The million faces of Data
Will it blend? That is the question. For those of you who don’t know the reference, Google it for your daily entertainment. The research...
May 8, 20232 min read


The process is the product
When ChatGPT was announced last year, I was knees deep with the team, inside the arduous final touches of writing an NDA. To be specific-...
May 7, 20232 min read


Viruses, the tough guys of Biology
Viruses are the real tough guys of biology. We all saw how difficult it was to run a fight with a contagious virus on the loose. In the...
May 7, 20231 min read


Another step towards a digital future...
Another step towards a fully digital future, straight from the FDA’s oven. FDA has published for comments another breakdown of the CTD...
May 4, 20231 min read


Small molecules and Cell therapies...
I love small molecules. They are well-defined, they are stable, they are easy to deliver to patients, and are reliable all around. The...
May 1, 20231 min read


Knowledge to the rescue!
The entire endeavor of drug development is in essence, a quest for knowledge. We start with zero knowledge about the new molecule- it...
Apr 27, 20231 min read


Onboarding woes...
When people think of onboarding it is usually for hiring a new team member. In reality we “onboard” all the time- when we hire...
Apr 26, 20232 min read


Backup your knowledge...
With the incredible amounts of data at our disposal, it is almost negligence to let some of it collect dust in some folder without use....
Apr 25, 20231 min read


To build or not to build
There is a hidden cost to outsourcing. Its hard to measure in the Excel sheets, its inevitable, and we all do it whenever we pay for a...
Mar 26, 20232 min read


The Pros and Cons of being alive
Buddha taught us not to get overly distracted by the illusions we invent. These illusions are a feature- not a bug. We evolved to imagine...
Mar 21, 20232 min read


Explain it to me as if I were Human
My car has an alert system that warns me of collisions. There is this one spot where the alarm goes crazy- beeping faster and louder...
Mar 19, 20232 min read


Don’t be afraid of the Dragon
Would you flip a coin each time you take a medicine, Heads - safe, Tails - unsafe? I guess you wouldn't. But ask the terminally ill...
Mar 14, 20232 min read


Money, Energy and Patience
We influence the world by putting energy into the things we care about. It could be the daily pruning of a garden, the back and forth...
Mar 12, 20232 min read


The Wisdom Ladder
We generate data in many shapes and colors. Letters, numbers, pictures, spectra, chromatograms, and whatnot… When combined into a...
Mar 10, 20231 min read


Let's be FAIR
Look at your desktop Now back to me. Now back at your desktop. Now back to ME. Sadly, your desktop isn't me. But if you stop saving all...
Mar 8, 20232 min read


Machine Intuition and Gut Feelings
A few years back, I was a PIP in a manufacturing facility in Vienna. PIP means Person-in-plant, and I was representing a client, who had...
Mar 7, 20232 min read


Drivers, Pedestrians, and ICH Q9
The world is a dangerous place. Risks are looming all around us. You Dodge one ball just to find yourself worrying about another one. But...
Mar 6, 20232 min read


Clean Rooms and Dirty Hands…
We are not very clean. We surely FEEL clean when we wash our hands, but if you look through a microscope, our skin is a rich ecosystem of...
Mar 2, 20232 min read


Speech to Text to Knowledge
I am an avid listener. Not enough, according to my daughters, but Audio has always been my go-to for learning. I would record the...
Mar 1, 20232 min read


Assumptions to the daylight!
No way around peeking into this Pandora box called “what we don’t know we don’t know”, and the trickier cousin: “what we THINK we know...
Feb 27, 20232 min read
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