I am a scientist, founder, investor, musician, and visual artist - mainly a curious person struggling to balance my interests.
Currently, I work as a partner at Triplicate, an early-stage investment firm promoting the deinstitutionalization of science. We are interested in supporting teams that accelerate independent scientific discovery.
I spend a large part of my time thinking about incentive and mechanism design in science. Previously, I co-founded Molecule, a platform that fosters decentralized, modular, and collaborative drug development, where I also served as CSO and CEO. I co-authored the VitaDAO white paper, and built a first-of-its-kind collective dedicated to supporting longevity research through a decentralized funding approaches, as well as PsyDAO, doing a similar thing for psychedelic science. Collectively, this space has become known as decentralized science (DeSci).
Prior to being a founder, I worked under the mentorship of Dr. David M. Wilson III and Dr. Vilhelm Bohr at The National Institute on Aging, where I focused on DNA damage and repair and segmental progerias. During my undergraduate studies, I collaborated with Dr. Ron Hutchison and Dr. Daniel Hernandez to examine pathogenesis in limulus egg populations using Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) and conducted research at Columbia University with Dr. Robert Fine, investigating chemotherapy resistance mechanisms in pancreatic cancer and developing novel therapeutic strategies for various cancers.
I maintain a broad interest in epistemics, game theory, incentive design in science, artificial intelligence, psychedelics, longevity research, frontier technologies, and history amongst other things.
I produce electronic music under the alias Faretrade and visual art under the moniker Scanate.
I am actively angel investing. I have invested in companies such as Prime Intellect, Marathon Fusion, BeakerDAO, and many others. If you are just beginning the journey of building something that you believe will make the world a much better place, get in touch.
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