Eddie Eltoukhy
@eddie_eltoukhy
Biotech investing & startups. Partner @pearvc, formerly Head of Corp Dev @SentiBio. Alum of @StanfordGSB and @MITdeptofBE.
What were the 50 most successful life sciences startups of the past 15 years? 🧬🚀 For our @pearvc Biotech: Bench to Business series, we conducted an in-depth review of these companies that we dubbed the “biotech behemoths.” 🦍 Link here: pear.vc/biotech-behemo…
Today, we @tahoe_ai are announcing TahoeDive, built in partnership with Kepler AI @keplogic + opening beta access! TahoeDive is an AI agent for biologists to query & analyze our Tahoe-100M dataset using natural language, with added context from broader scientific literature. 🧵
Thrilled to see our fearless leaders and founding partners @MarHershenson (#44) and @pejmannozad (#46) named to the @Forbes Midas List again! Well-deserved recognition for two incredible people! forbes.com/lists/midas/
Huge congratulations to our co-founder @pejmannozad for being ranked the #1 seed investor on the Forbes Midas Seed List — for the third year in a row! 📷📷📷 From selling rugs to spotting generational founders, Pejman’s journey is one of heart, hustle, and unmatched instinct.…
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Join or nominate someone great 👩💻 to an intimate community of female engineers, guided by successful founders & leaders Apps & nominations are open for @pearvc's Female Founders Circle AI - Spring Cohort! We're lucky to be supported by @OpenAI @mercury @WilmerHale!
Why are Western pharmaCos licensing so many Chinese drugs lately? Is China going to do all our drug discovery in the future? My thoughts in a new post. This post has languished in drafts for a while, but the Merck+Hansoh deal motivated me to finish it up atelfo.github.io/2024/12/20/wil…
🎆4 years in the making! Thrilled to share the 1st spatial single cell aging clock⏰ @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158… We use #AI + spatial transcriptomics to discover what makes some cells age faster/slower in the brain🧠 Led by @EricDSun; awesome collaboration w/ @BrunetLab 🧵
🚀 Applications are now OPEN for the Spring 2025 Pear Persian Founder Circle! If you’re an ambitious founder of Iranian descent, this program will give you the tools, insights, and connections to take your startup to the next level. Apply or nominate here:…
Inspiring talk by @vladtenev tonight at @pearvc @Arpan_Shah_ “My co-founder and I solved physics problems at @Stanford before solving business problems. When we started @RobinhoodApp we had a long history working together”
Check out our latest research by @MNaghipourfar and others in our team on building language models of coding sequence. In this preprint, we introduce cdsFM, a suite of codon-resolution language models!👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Come build with @OpenAI at the Pear Hackathon on 10/12. Applications are due by 9/29. Don’t miss this opportunity to build with the latest OpenAI products, receive expert guidance, and present your projects to AI leaders on our expert judging panel. shorturl.at/mRsha
A low-cost diabetes drug slows ageing in male monkeys and is particularly effective at delaying the effects of ageing on the brain go.nature.com/3TpoB2R
Confused by the number of open-sourced AlphaFold3 alternatives recently put out on the market? So was I - so I wrote a little thing about it! Link below 👇