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🧬eMalick Njie, Ph.D - Ecotone - Part 2 | What is Memory? | Playing “Stump the Professor” | Lab Coat Labs vs Sandals Labs | Wanting to Help People at Scale
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Nội dung được cung cấp bởi Jon Chee. Tất cả nội dung podcast bao gồm các tập, đồ họa và mô tả podcast đều được Jon Chee hoặc đối tác nền tảng podcast của họ tải lên và cung cấp trực tiếp. Nếu bạn cho rằng ai đó đang sử dụng tác phẩm có bản quyền của bạn mà không có sự cho phép của bạn, bạn có thể làm theo quy trình được nêu ở đây https://vi.player.fm/legal.
The Biotech Startups Podcast is brought to you by Excedr. Excedr provides life science startups with equipment leases on founder-friendly terms to accelerate R&D and commercialization.
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Part 2 of 4: Jon Chee hosts our latest guest, eMalick Njie, CEO of Ecotone AI, a healthcare company that is using AI to find cures for inherited diseases. eMalick is an experienced scientist and entrepreneur who has focused on blending his expertise in neuroscience with his knowledge of AI.
In addition to founding two AI companies, Ecotone and Genetic Intelligence, eMalick received his PhD in Neurobiology and Neuroscience from the University of Florida. His extensive and diverse experience from being a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia university to being the CEO of the AI thinktank NeuroStorm makes our conversation with him one you won’t want to miss.
Join us this week to hear about:
- Answering the question “What is memory?”
- How playing “Stump the Professor” led eMalick to Columbia
- Studying C Eligans in a sandals-wearing lab
- The wide applicable uses for AI and ML in research
- Wanting to help people at scale
Please enjoy Jon’s conversation with Dr. eMalick Njie!
Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-biotech-startups-podcast/id1679591994
Find Our Guest, Barbara Alcaraz Silva, at these links:
Find Our Host, Jon Chee, at these links:
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/excedr
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@excedr
Podcast Website: https://www.thebiotechstartupspodcast.com/
Enriched Notes:
Topics Mentioned:
Alzheimer’s Disease: https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers
Amyloid Plaques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid_plaques
CAR T Therapy: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/treatment-types/immunotherapy/car-t-cell1.html
Amyloid Hypothesis for Alzheimer’s https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/alzheimers-new-study-supports-amyloid-hypothesis-suggests-alternate-treatment
Biotech Startup Support: https://www.excedr.com/resources-category/biotech-startup-support
People Mentioned:
Dr. Wolfgang Streit: https://neuroscience.ufl.edu/profile/streit-wolfgang/
Dr. David Borchelt https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-borchelt-42474623/
Timestamps:
00:28 Intro
01:52 Moving to Florida and dealing with massive shifts in weather and culture
04:48 Experience working to answer the questions, “What is memory,”
06:21 Studying the other extreme edge of memory, Alzheimer’s disease
10:43 Investigating possible plaque busting proteins
13:43 Benefits of having more freedom and other differences between MIT and Borchelt's Lab
16:25 Playing “Stump The Professor” with Martin Chalfie
20:06 Getting both invited and challenged to write a proposal to study at Columbia
25:47 Learning to love the constant surprises and level of people in New York
29:46 Going from a lab coat lab to a sandals lab to study C Eligans at Columbia
34:25 Researching neurons responsible for touch sensitivity in C Eligans
38:30 Martin Chalfie’s mentorship brilliant mentorship style allowing his students to grow
43:43 How a data deluge stemming from one of his experiments started his AI/ML journey
49:53 Choosing the entrepreneurship path and wanting to help people at scale
54:27 Outro
The Biotech Startups Podcast is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so
86 tập
MP3•Trang chủ episode
Manage episode 444509202 series 3461709
Nội dung được cung cấp bởi Jon Chee. Tất cả nội dung podcast bao gồm các tập, đồ họa và mô tả podcast đều được Jon Chee hoặc đối tác nền tảng podcast của họ tải lên và cung cấp trực tiếp. Nếu bạn cho rằng ai đó đang sử dụng tác phẩm có bản quyền của bạn mà không có sự cho phép của bạn, bạn có thể làm theo quy trình được nêu ở đây https://vi.player.fm/legal.
The Biotech Startups Podcast is brought to you by Excedr. Excedr provides life science startups with equipment leases on founder-friendly terms to accelerate R&D and commercialization.
Know anyone that needs lab equipment? Join Excedr’s referral program: Give Your Friends $1,000, and Earn $1,000 for Each Qualified Referral 💸.
Get your unique referral link by going to: refer.excedr.com/ZTHETY.
Part 2 of 4: Jon Chee hosts our latest guest, eMalick Njie, CEO of Ecotone AI, a healthcare company that is using AI to find cures for inherited diseases. eMalick is an experienced scientist and entrepreneur who has focused on blending his expertise in neuroscience with his knowledge of AI.
In addition to founding two AI companies, Ecotone and Genetic Intelligence, eMalick received his PhD in Neurobiology and Neuroscience from the University of Florida. His extensive and diverse experience from being a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia university to being the CEO of the AI thinktank NeuroStorm makes our conversation with him one you won’t want to miss.
Join us this week to hear about:
- Answering the question “What is memory?”
- How playing “Stump the Professor” led eMalick to Columbia
- Studying C Eligans in a sandals-wearing lab
- The wide applicable uses for AI and ML in research
- Wanting to help people at scale
Please enjoy Jon’s conversation with Dr. eMalick Njie!
Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-biotech-startups-podcast/id1679591994
Find Our Guest, Barbara Alcaraz Silva, at these links:
Find Our Host, Jon Chee, at these links:
Excedr Socials & Website
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/excedr/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@excedr
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/excedr_inc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExcedrInc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/excedr
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@excedr
Podcast Website: https://www.thebiotechstartupspodcast.com/
Enriched Notes:
Topics Mentioned:
Alzheimer’s Disease: https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers
Amyloid Plaques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid_plaques
CAR T Therapy: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/treatment-types/immunotherapy/car-t-cell1.html
Amyloid Hypothesis for Alzheimer’s https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/alzheimers-new-study-supports-amyloid-hypothesis-suggests-alternate-treatment
Biotech Startup Support: https://www.excedr.com/resources-category/biotech-startup-support
People Mentioned:
Dr. Wolfgang Streit: https://neuroscience.ufl.edu/profile/streit-wolfgang/
Dr. David Borchelt https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-borchelt-42474623/
Timestamps:
00:28 Intro
01:52 Moving to Florida and dealing with massive shifts in weather and culture
04:48 Experience working to answer the questions, “What is memory,”
06:21 Studying the other extreme edge of memory, Alzheimer’s disease
10:43 Investigating possible plaque busting proteins
13:43 Benefits of having more freedom and other differences between MIT and Borchelt's Lab
16:25 Playing “Stump The Professor” with Martin Chalfie
20:06 Getting both invited and challenged to write a proposal to study at Columbia
25:47 Learning to love the constant surprises and level of people in New York
29:46 Going from a lab coat lab to a sandals lab to study C Eligans at Columbia
34:25 Researching neurons responsible for touch sensitivity in C Eligans
38:30 Martin Chalfie’s mentorship brilliant mentorship style allowing his students to grow
43:43 How a data deluge stemming from one of his experiments started his AI/ML journey
49:53 Choosing the entrepreneurship path and wanting to help people at scale
54:27 Outro
The Biotech Startups Podcast is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so
86 tập
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