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Lonsdale: Illumina acquiring Grail would have saved thousands of lives monthly
“I don't know if you saw the Illumina grill one. I wasn't personally involved in that financially, but I have friends on both sides and you probably, you know, grill is a blood test that detects cancer and Illumina was going to scale it up. And the models are t…”
Joe Lonsdale May 2, 2024 ▶ 16:58 Ep 87: Dr. Cliff Winston — Deregulate Lawyers, Deregulate Airlines & Let Markets Correct Themselves · Joe Lonsdale
What-if
Klausner: The National Cancer Institute could not have created GRAIL
“And he asked me explicitly, could you have done that if you were still running the National Cancer Institute? And I believe the answer is no. It's extremely hard to aggregate all of those resources and to create the type of completely mission-driven venture.”
Dr. Rick Klausner Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 12:55 Dr. Rick Klausner: Curing Cancer, Reprogramming Cells, and the Incredible Biotech Revolution · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Klausner: GRAIL required $1.5B+ in private capital over four years
“And turns out we learned over about four years with over a billion and a half dollars of private investment to figure that out.”
Dr. Rick Klausner Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 12:33 Dr. Rick Klausner: Curing Cancer, Reprogramming Cells, and the Incredible Biotech Revolution · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Partly supported
Klausner: GRAIL clinical trials enrolled over 150,000 participants
“For GRAIL, we had clinical trials that involved over a 150,000 participants, and those are really expensive.”
Dr. Rick Klausner Jun 29, 2021 ▶ 15:18 Dr. Rick Klausner: Curing Cancer, Reprogramming Cells, and the Incredible Biotech Revolution · Joe Lonsdale
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