Peter Kolchinsky

Now biotech gives us a useful anchor against hype.

On October eighth, Alex Wisner-Gross posted on X about a Conversations in Action episode with Peter Kolchinsky of RA Capital Management framed around AI curing every disease over the next ten years.

That is the maximalist version of the biotech AI thesis.

But today's web results also include a more grounded clinical signal.

Any book you would recommend to read?

So a book I'm reading right now at the recommendation of one of our board members is The Great American Drug Deal, a book by Peter Kolchinsky, which addresses why prescription drug prices, especially for new drugs, are so high.

In the United States,

because it was basically in response to Draxon RASIP, the RAS inhibitor that was the ASCO plenary, you know, the RAS inhibitor for pancreatic cancer with a standing ovation and all.

Right.

And I see him and I look at Peter Kolchinsky, who's not a member of our community, but as an ally.

And I see him speaking up for us.

everybody, no matter who, no matter where they came from, whether they're Ukrainian or like himself, or whether they are women of color, or whether they are just anybody, fairness, science tends to breed fairness.