Prizing Innovation & The Future of Synthetic Biology

Prizing Innovation & The Future of Synthetic Biology

Welcome to this month's NextMed?Health ?newsletter. Highlights include:

  • Our curated?selection of top news and stories?highlighting?what's now, near and next in health and biomedicine (scroll to bottom).
  • Prizing Healthcare Innovation, and a new $101 Healthspan XPRIZE
  • Rewriting Life: The Acceleration & Potential of?Synthetic Biology?

Save The Dates: ?NextMed Health 2024 will be December 10-13th, 2024 back at the newly renovated Hotel del Coronado in San Diego.?


Prizing Health Innovation:? Back in 1927, Charles Lindberg didn't cross the Atlantic in the Spirit of Saint Louis for the thrill of it... he was competing for the??$25,000 Orteig Prize for the first nonstop aircraft flight between New York and Paris. Lindberg's achievement unlocked and catalyzed transatlantic flight. ?This aviation prize inspired the founding of the XPRIZE , which in 1994 announced the $10M Ansari XPRIZE to? incentivizing the creation of a reliable, reusable, privately financed, crewed spaceship that finally made private space travel commercially viable. More than $100 million was invested in new technologies in pursuit of the $10M prize.? XPRIZE has gone on to run prizes in health and medicine. I've been fortunate to have been advisor for the XPRIZE and helped conceive of the Medical Tricorder XPRIZE, and as chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance helped design and run the?$6M Rapid Covid Testing XPRIZE . ?On November 29th,?XPRIZE announced its largest prize yet, XPRIZE ?Healthspan , a 7-year, $101 million global competition to revolutionize the way we approach human aging.

At NextMed Health?2023, the CEO of?XPRIZE Foundation Anousheh Ansari , shared her journey (including to space as private astronaut),?and the the story and mission of XPRIZE ,??and how audacious prizes can catalyze massive innovation and impact in health and beyond. Several winning teams from the Avatar, Rapid Reskilling, and Rapid Covid Testing prizes also shared their solutions.

Writing DNA: The?Future of Synthetic Biology & Synthetic Genomics Last month, I had the opportunity to lead the Health Domain's braintrust sessions at XPRIZE Global Visioneering.? Alongside us was Andrew Hessel a longtime NextMed Health faculty member and synthetic biology expert. Andrew noted that writing DNA is over 20 million times more expensive than reading it and he pitched a DNA Writing XPRIZE . This proposed prize aims to incentivize the development of faster, cheaper, and longer DNA writing technologies, unlocking boundless possibilities. If you're interested in learning more about synthetic biology and its potential impact on health, energy, and the environment, check out Andrew's insightful NextMed Health talk on 'Rewriting Life'.


All the best,

Daniel

Daniel Kraft, MD

Founder & Chair, NextMed Health

@Daniel_Kraft ??@N extMedHealth

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Future of Health & Biomedicine News What's Next:

Big Picture

FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR (NBC)

The White House Announces 31 Regional Tech Hubs -including those focused on biotech, pharma and medical devices (White House)

About That Next Generation of Clinicians… (Medium)

Google Launches Gemini, next generation multi-modal AI (DeepMind)

Healing the Healers (See You Now)

Digital Health

“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say (HealthPopuli)

Can Fitness be VR's Long Awaited Killer App? ?(Proto.Life ) Your Digital Twin May Already Exist (BioTech Nation)

Meet the winners of the 2023 Digital Health Awards (Digital.Health )

AI &?Biomedicine

Use of GPT-4 to Diagnose Complex Clinical Cases (NEJM-AI)

How Should Medical AI be Regulated? (Proto.Life ) Has a new China-based AI model beaten Silicon Valley’s LLMs? (Economic Times)

You can now create custom versions of ChatGPT (OpenAI)

AI & Health- A Collection from Google

Future of?Therapy

Tiny ‘anthrobots’ built from human cells could help heal the body (Science) New enzyme allows CRISPR technologies to accurately target almost all human genes (Nature)

Epigenetics: Can we control our genes? (BBC)

Open science discovery of potent noncovalent SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors (Science)

Using CRISPR to permanently cure people of HIV (MIT Tech Review)

Future of Diagnostics

AI and 10 seconds of voice can screen for diabetes (Klick Health)

Blood tests?for widespread Alzheimer's diagnosis on the way (Reuters) Augmenting Human Capabilities With AI And Computer Vision For Healthcare (Forbes)

Public Health & Global Health

First malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality (Science)

What keeps me up at night (Fauci in Science)

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations: vaccines ready for rollout within 100 days ?(The Telegraph)

Latest?Covid-19 News & More (Ruth Ann Crystal)

Neuromedicine & Mental Health

Vaccines Show Surprising Link To Reduced Risk Of Alzheimer’s ?(Forbes)

The Gut-Brain Axis: Connection between the microbiome & cognitive decline (Proto.Life )

10 Ways Neurotech Is Helping People In The Real World ?(Forbes)

Digital Mental Health Solutions for Psychiatrists, Therapists and Beyond (Digital.Health )

NextMed 2023: Takeaways and Summaries

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Stephen Davies

Engineer, Creator

11 个月

"Andrew noted that writing DNA is over 20 million times more expensive than reading it?"

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