1/ incomparable INCREDIBLE Lux family responsible for:
-1 of Merck’s best selling drug in history (JANUVIA)
-building Lux family co gut-brain axis co Kallyope
-reminding me that powerful women CEOs build powerful brilliant diverse teams oft more readily than men
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2/ Appropriately framed on Lux wall of ‘Rebel Scientists’ by Henrietta Lacks (top left)—whose HeLa cell lines live on immortaly, used in cancer research + Rosalind Franklin co-discoverer of DNA with Watson/Crick (bottom right)
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3/ To learn more about the cutting edge tech of your gut-brain axis…
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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/ Here is why Lux first got excited about finding keys to unlock genetics + cell biology + pathways of the GUT-BRAIN AXIS
(this is mindblowing…)
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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/ A huge amount of human suffering is happening from obesity + metabolic disease…(some cancer included)
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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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6/ Pictured here is the Kallyope team
w/ Nancy Thornberry + me in matching black◾️◾️;)
Along with
-Nobel prize winner Joseph Goldstein (purple)
-Nobel prize winner Michael Brown (bottom R.)
together discovered cholesterol metabolism
-Nobel prize winner Richard Axel (smell)
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KALLYOPE
5 Nobel & Lasker prize winners
2 ex heads of R&D @ Genenetch + Merck
Others via Google, Bloomberg
1 VC
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