How does one go from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to the world of health tech startups? Jerry Harrison, the former guitarist for the 1970s new wave band, the Talking Heads, may be the only person on Earth who can answer that question. “When I moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, […]

Six days after the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, Shafique Virani, M.D., landed a brand new job. Following a two-year stint leading a couple of subsidiaries of BridgeBio, the Roche-Genentech alum jumped to Recursion Pharmaceuticals to be the chief corporate development officer of the AI-driven drug discovery company. Roughly […]

Well into year three of the pandemic, we face a patchwork reality. Parts of the world resemble pre-COVID-19 days as people increasingly travel, leave home for work, and put their masks aside. At the same time, countries in Asia and Europe are battling surges fueled by the BA.2 Omicron sub-variant and US cases are rising […]