Jorge Conde
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first heard Sep 2025
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And do you think that the uh that the mechanism for reviewing the grants, say at the NIH, became overly cautious or did the scientists themselves become overly cautious?
Well,
I love this idea of of comparing uh or or analogizing the NIH to almost like a portfolio manager, right?
Where and you know, similar to what we do as as venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.
And if I really wanted to abuse your analogy, which I I will if you'll allow me for a second, you know, the people are almost like your limited partners, are the ones that tell you these are the sort of the theses and the fund areas we want you to go after.
And you all are the the investors, the venture capital investors that have to do the portfolio management and picking and all of that.
You said a few minutes ago that a lot of the grants in the NIH are going to older ideas.
And there's, you know, lots of data that shows they're also going to, you know, more established, you know, older scientists, you know, at at the very high, you know, uh highly regarded institutions.
Um the equivalent of that would be if we only funded uh
um thirty year executives that came out of, you know, large established companies and ignored, you know, the young up and comers, you know, coming right out of the you know, university or or dropping out of school or whatever.
Um, you've talked a little bit about, you know, that question, like how do you reform the process, the you know, the execution to use Vanita's f uh phrasing, on selecting for the the innovation that if you will, bubbles up from the bottom?
step two.
To be clear.
Mid forties, super young.
Just want to be clear about that.
Super
So Jay, you know, one of the
One of the key questions if you know for the for the American public, they're looking for for better uh outcomes, better health.
One of the big avenues that of course this country uses and it's really had as a gold standard in the past is um you know having this extraordinary public health infrastructure.
But I think what's also true is over the course of the last several years, there's a lot of uh mistrust now in terms of public health.
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