DJ Kleinbaum
On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Everything DJ Kleinbaum said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Laboratory virtualization helps solve the reproducibility crisis in scientific research
“The other important thing that is not necessarily obvious is this helps solve the reproducibility issue that we have in science.”
Typical biotech Series A rounds reached $20M to $40M in 2017
“Nowadays a biotech company might raise 20, 30, forty million dollars for a first round of financing, and we raised a tiny fraction of that”
Automation allows lean biotech startups to match big pharma research output
“You can do, ah, the same amount of work if you just make your scientists that many times more efficient than a company, than those who work at a big pharma company or at one of these other biotech firms.”
Emerald Therapeutics taught every scientist on its staff how to code
“We decided to teach every scientist we hired, so organic chemists, molecular biologists, geneticists, you named it, how to write code.”
Emerald Cloud Lab is virtualization like AWS, not outsourcing like CROs
“Be, it's not outsourcing, it's virtualization, so we are much more similar to Taiwan Semiconductor or Amazon Web Services than we are to any of these CROs”
Untracked variables, not fraud, drive the scientific reproducibility crisis
“Maybe a tiny fraction of that might be malfeasance, but most scientists are trying really hard to, like, convey the results they have gotten and how they got them. The problem is, is that when you're doing that, when you're doing everything by hand, and you're…”
Emerald Cloud Lab captures all variables for push-button experiment reproducibility
“Every scientifically relevant variable is captured in lab automation and robotics. We have the fully detailed look at what your, what the world looked like when you ran that experiment. So therefore you can go back and get push button reproducibility because y…”
Cloud lab turnaround must match Amazon Prime speed to be useful
“This needs to be like the Amazon Prime of life sciences research, because if there's too long between when you submit your experiment and when we do it, it's not going to be useful to you”
Emerald Cloud Lab lets scientists globally run experiments remotely in SF
“So we have an application, so scientists anywhere in the world can design an experiment as if they are standing in front of the instrument themselves, That experiment then runs at our essential facility in South San Francisco.”
Emerald Cloud Lab captures full environmental and maintenance metadata for experiments
“But it's not just the data that we send back for that particular experiment. It's all of the other meta and ancillary data around that. So things like For the instrument they ran it on, when was the last time we ran controls on that instrument to verify that i…”
Emerald Cloud Lab executes submitted experiment protocols within 48 hours
“So once you've done this a database succession number gets created, which is the number for this protocol. It gets sent to our queue, and then within 48 hours it will be running on one of our instruments.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens DJ's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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