BIO + TECH
Incredible pace of scientific + clinical progress + invigorating GENIUS in todays board meeting—
Lux fam co Kallyope (finding all kinds of insane secrets in our gut-brain axis)—after our recent ~$250M funding
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2/ It started way back here…
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KALLYOPE
5 Nobel & Lasker prize winners
2 ex heads of R&D @ Genenetch + Merck
Others via Google, Bloomberg
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3/Learn what your gut-brain axis is
and why Lux + billionaires including Bill Gates, Jim Simons, Mubadala, The Column Group and more have bet hundreds of millions on a NYC bio + tech co—Kallyope
Lux.vc/futura6
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4/ Wanna see what got Lux excited?
it started with Columbia’s Charles Zuker
who we’ve partnered with on MANY Lux cos
He engineered a mouse with neurons that could be light activated––so that he you turned a laser on—he could make them…THIRSTY 🚰🤯
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5/ We became obsessed with Charles scientific creativity––and while everyone else was focusing on the MICROBIOME
We teamed to focus on the GUT-BRAIN AXIS
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