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Pearl Freier

Pearl Freier

@PearlF

Founder of Cambridge BioPartners, Inc.

Boston, MA

Joined March 2023

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Pearl Freier

@PearlF·
An antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in multiple recalled eye drops caused the death of 3 people, blindness in 8 ppl & 4 ppl needed the surgical removal of their eyeballs. According to CDC's, 68 ppl in 16 states were infected using the eye drops. people.com/health/recalled-eye-drops-contaminated-with-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-death-toll-rises/...

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The mystery of the Oreo: a PhD candidate in MIT’s mech engineering dept led a group of researchers on a quest 2 figure out if there's a trick to getting the creme to stay on in near equal amounts when u pull the 2 wafers apart. Nutter Butters could be next wsj.com/articles/oreo-cookies-twist-creme-mit-scientists-ce6a3daa...

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Pearl Freier

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Speaking of Oreos, a few years back when pastry chef Claire Saffitz made videos for Bon Appetit she made a video of trying to replicate the Oreo in the BA kitchen. It took a couple of days :) youtube.com/watch...

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Pearl Freier

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Founder said her breast cancer diagnosis was advanced despite 5 years annually of mammograms that were negative. She has "dense breasts" & didn't know to request an MRI. She's advocating for legislation to help more women get the testing they need: bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2023/03/13/sheila-mikhail-ask-bio-breast-cancer-fda-mammogram.html...

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Pearl Freier

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Six Questions About Google Bard by journalist Casey Newton platformer.news/p/six-questions-about-google-bard...

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Pearl Freier

@PearlF·
Interesting interview with Reid Hoffman where he weighs in on SVB, Biden/DC/White House, Trump, Thiel, Musk and AI (he was on the board of Open AI until he recently stepped down) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reid-hoffman-talks-trump-thiel-ai/id1643307527...

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Pearl Freier

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Replying to@mikhail
The "For You" feed on Twitter keeps getting worse and worse. When I logged in there twice today it was mostly tweets from people that I had no idea who they were & not relevant to me at all. It's almost as if Elon & his investors are trying to sabotage Twitter on purpose.

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Pearl Freier

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Saw this chart yesterday tracking trends in tech headcount from '19-'22. Just 14 companies increased 1.4 M to 2.4 M employees across tech, even after the reductions. h/t Altimeter. I would love 2c what this chart would look like for the hospital industry for non medical/HCW jobs

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Pearl Freier

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Former VC Li Sun co-founded and became CEO of SF-based Shennon Biotechnologies in '21 and they have a single cell platform to "unlock a key bottleneck in immunotherapy." She came out of stealth mode with $13M seed round led by DCVC bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2023/03/15/cancer-cell-therapy-shennon-bio-dcvc-mbc-biolabs.html...

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Mikhail Kats

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Oh cool, Sun Li is a former labmate of mine. Didn't know her startup is out of stealth =)

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Pearl Freier

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Replying to@gabor
But this is why, from Garry's post: "late stage investing turned out to be so different from early stage that we found it to be a distraction from our core mission. So we’re going to decrease the amount of late stage investing we do."

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