Alex’s blog | Personal site for posts about my interests: the biotech industry, medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, biorisk, science, consciousness, AI, innovation, decision making, philosophy, games, sci-fi, probability, and forecasting (among other things). I write to learn, mostly about biotech.

2023-08-24
An Enhertu innovation map
2023-05-17
Intelligence as efficient model building
2023-02-26
Pharmaceutical blockbusters: the past, present, and future(?)
2022-09-14
Innovation, sea snails, and the blind professor
2022-08-14
Steelmanning the argument for free drug pricing
2022-06-02
Where are the other Luxturna's? Challenges with gene therapy for inherited retinal diseases
2022-05-23
Reasoning about response rates
2022-03-19
The best ways to follow biopharma news and learn about the industry (in my opinion)
2022-01-01
Ergodicity and biotech, or why expected value is a mirage
2021-12-18
Developing a deeper understanding of diagnosis rates
2021-10-01
Unplanned success in drug development
2021-02-08
What is a good binding affinity for a drug?