Year: 2022

BARCELONA CAN BE THE NEXT BOSTON" "" "...If we are willing to be radical on tax and other incentives for investors and entrepreneurs, make a soft landing for foreign capital, and de-clutter old fashioned and out-dated wats of doing things, such as capital structure, and back-door deals... View in LinkedIn

CAPITAL STRUCTURES" "" "Spanish law on capital structures, with the small Stock Option Pool, is archaic and needs fixing. Overseas investors will walk from such a structure. Work-arounds are 100% possible and it vital to get modern and clean this up. View in LinkedIn

INTEGRITY IS KEY" "" "Without integrity and transparency, there is no trust, and with no trust, valuable deals and assets will leave Catalunya. It is essential to avoid this slippery slope, of back-room deals, and slight of hand, or forever remain a backwater. View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AS COUNTER-BIOTERRORISM: most of the literature on bioterrorism appears stuck in a bygone era. Synthetic biology allows a vaccine to be developed very rapidly once the DNA of the biological agent is known (DNA vaccines). It also does not need a cold chain and can be nasally delivered. http://lnkd.in/dXcMHbj View in LinkedIn

DARPA SEEKS FAST DNA VACCINES. "After losing more than 1 million service days during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to severe diarrhea in troops, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to combat the problem by making drugs based on nucleic acids such as DNA rather than the weakened or dead proteins typically used in vaccines."" " http://lnkd.in/dmAkSWM View in LinkedIn

TELEPORTING DNA FOR QUICK VACCINES PART I. "We are now engaged in finding new ways to head off pandemics by being able to read the code of flu strains and very rapidly produce vaccines to stop them. We received the sequence from them in digital form by email and converted it back into DNA to produce the vaccine in about 10 hours." (Craig J Venter). http://lnkd.in/dB4m5rE View in LinkedIn

TELEPORTING DNA FOR QUICK VACCINES PART II. "Novartis is already scaling up the vaccine before we’ve had a single outbreak in the U.S. That is the opposite of what happened with H1N1 when we didn’t have a vaccine until two months after the pandemic had peaked." (Craig J Venter). http://lnkd.in/dB4m5rE View in LinkedIn

SUPER-FAST VACCINE FOR PANDEMICS I. "In a timed proof of concept this team demonstrated that in just four days and four hours they could accurately construct robust synthetic vaccine viruses for use in influenza vaccine development."(Craig J Venter). http://www.jcvi.org/cms/press/press-releases/full-text/article/research-team-publishes-new-methods-for-synthetic-generation-of-influenza-vaccines/#sthash.aepwVBDD.dpuf View in LinkedIn

SUPER-FAST VACCINE FOR PANDEMICS II. "The team concludes that this is a novel and accurate method that could enable a more rapid pandemic response and yield a more reliable supply of better matched seasonal and pandemic vaccines than are currently available." (Craig J Venter). http://www.jcvi.org/cms/press/press-releases/full-text/article/research-team-publishes-new-methods-for-synthetic-generation-of-influenza-vaccines/#sthash.aepwVBDD.dpuf View in LinkedIn

NEW VS OLD METHOD I. "In the traditional approach to vaccine development, an influenza virus is cultured and grown in chicken eggs. The synthetic genomics approach starts with virus genome sequence data in the computer ... it is still difficult to rapidly and accurately construct large pieces of DNA, large genes and whole genomes." http://www.jcvi.org/cms/press/press-releases/full-text/article/research-team-publishes-new-methods-for-synthetic-generation-of-influenza-vaccines/#sthash.aepwVBDD.dpuf View in LinkedIn