Aparaajita Balaji, Ph.D. (@aparaajita_b) 's Twitter Profile
Aparaajita Balaji, Ph.D.

@aparaajita_b

Biotech VC at KB Investment | @Yale PhD | @UCBerkeley alum | @YaleBiotechClub Co-Founder | Formerly @CanaanPartners @OrangeGroveBio @DDxVentures

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Cell Reports (@cellreports) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A spermidine riboswitch class in bacteria exploits a close variant of an aptamer for the enzyme cofactor S-adenosylmethionine dlvr.it/T05pqM

FierceBiotech (@fiercebiotech) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The ADC frenzy helped newly emerged Firefly Bio build out a syndicate and attract investor Eli Lilly for a $94 million series A. fiercebiotech.com/biotech/firefl…

Bruce Booth (@lifescivc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excellent report: Guggenhiem's ADC Landscape deep dive by Michael Schimdt and his team. 11 FDA-approved ADCs, expected to sell $28B in 2030 95 ADC programs active in clinical development today ~50% use Microtubule toxic payloads, 30% TOPOi

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🎉 We're excited to announce that the scholarship application for Cohort 16 of #VCUniversity, our course on venture finance produced with Venture Forward and Berkeley Law Executive Education, is OPEN! 🚀Apply by March 22: venturecapitaluniversity.com/scholarship/on…

Ohad Hammer (@ohadhammer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ADC and radiopharma deals from Truist. Funny to think how 5 years ago most pharmas (besides Daiichi of course) didn't want to touch neither ADCs nor radioTx. Table excludes several smaller ADC deals (Sanofi has a topo1 CEACAM5 ADC from Seagen, Merck with Kelun, Lilly with

ADC and radiopharma deals from Truist. 
Funny to think how 5 years ago most pharmas (besides Daiichi of course) didn't want to touch neither ADCs nor radioTx. 
Table excludes several smaller ADC deals (Sanofi has a topo1 CEACAM5 ADC from Seagen, Merck with Kelun, Lilly with
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Thank you to everyone who joined us at the #VCUniversity life sciences lunch in Boston today! Shoutout to our hosts, Mission BioCapital & Johnson & Johnson Innovation, for making it happen! To all our life science scholarship recipients & mentors, your presence made today extra special. Stay

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the #VCUniversity life sciences lunch in Boston today! Shoutout to our hosts, <a href="/MissionBioCap/">Mission BioCapital</a> &amp; <a href="/JNJInnovation/">Johnson & Johnson Innovation</a>, for making it happen!

To all our life science scholarship recipients &amp; mentors, your presence made today extra special. Stay
Ohad Hammer (@ohadhammer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Radiopharma deals (From Jefferies). Good demonstration of the cyclic nature of our business. Targeted radioTx together with ADCs, obesity and biologics for I&I are the hottest areas in pharma BD right now but ~5 years ago there was very limited interest in most of them...

Radiopharma deals (From Jefferies).
Good demonstration of the cyclic nature of our business. Targeted radioTx together with ADCs, obesity and biologics for I&amp;I are the hottest areas in pharma BD right now but ~5 years ago there was very limited interest  in most of them...
UC Berkeley (@ucberkeley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to UC Berkeley alum Gary Ruvkun on winning a #NobelPrize for his role in the discovery and research of microRNAs!

The Nobel Prize (@nobelprize) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Maxim Greenberg (@maxvcg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Biology Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Biology Nobel Prize in Physics: Sounds like Biology #NobelPrize

UC Berkeley (@ucberkeley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to UC Berkeley PhD alum David Baker on winning a #NobelPrize for his success in building entirely new kinds of proteins, an almost impossible feat.

UC Berkeley (@ucberkeley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

UC Berkeley has been ranked the #1 public university in the U.S. by Times Higher Education, a ranking the university has held for 9 of the past 10 years. All thanks to our community of brilliant bears.🐻 news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/09/tim…

UC Berkeley (@ucberkeley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This year’s The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is shared by David Baker, a biochemist who received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1989. Baker is one of three Nobel winners this year with a UC Berkeley connection. news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/09/dav…

Yale University (@yale) 's Twitter Profile Photo

From Yale Ph.D. to Nobel laureate in economics: After learning that he had been awarded the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences this week, the first person James A. Robinson ’93 Ph.D. texted was Truman Bewley, who was his thesis advisor at Yale more than 30 years ago.

From Yale Ph.D. to Nobel laureate in economics: After learning that he had been awarded the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences this week, the first person James A. Robinson ’93 Ph.D. texted was Truman Bewley, who was his thesis advisor at Yale more than 30 years ago.
EVCA (@joinevca) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🌅⚓A perfect evening of networking, stunning views, and great conversations on our Venture Cruise. Big thanks to Silicon Valley Bank & Goodwin for their support! Special shoutout to our Boston co-leads: Tyler Fohrman, Sarah Lamont, Chaya Patel! 👏

🌅⚓A perfect evening of networking, stunning views, and great conversations on our Venture Cruise. Big thanks to <a href="/SiliconVlyBank/">Silicon Valley Bank</a> &amp; <a href="/goodwinlaw/">Goodwin</a>  for their support!

Special shoutout to our Boston co-leads: <a href="/tjfohrman/">Tyler Fohrman</a>, <a href="/sarah__lamont/">Sarah Lamont</a>, Chaya Patel! 👏