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Andy Coravos
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Respawning. Former CEO of HumanFirst (acquired by ICON plc). Curious about Irish poetry and life sciences/biotech. I like birds.
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Over coffee and bagels, @catehall.bsky.social asked me: where’s the fundraising handbook that guides scientists through how the game actually works? Not the sanitized Twitter version.

Didn't have one, so I wrote it with Rachel Katz. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/inside-bas...
June 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Made 65+ angel investments over the past 10 yrs. Last year, I tried something new: Broadway.

Invested in Suffs (6 Tony noms, 2 wins). would recommend, v fun. blog.andreacoravos.com/angel-invest...
Angel Investing in the Arts, Part II: Broadway Edition
If you believe in backing founders, you can back storytellers too. This series shares how you can angel invest in the arts and the creation…
blog.andreacoravos.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Everyone in tech wants to 'invest in the future 🚀'
But many forget that the future gets imagined first through storytelling.

@linda.bsky.social intro'd me to investing in films- didn't know that was possible. I wrote a guide to close that knowledge gap: blog.andreacoravos.com/angel-invest...
Angel Investing in the Arts: Film and Movies
If you believe in backing founders, you can back storytellers too. This series shares how you can angel invest in the arts and the creation…
blog.andreacoravos.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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A recent paper featuring DCRI staff members Ethan Fricklas, Tracy Tubb, and former DCRI Chief Science & Digital Officer Eric Perakslis PhD, says a unique regulatory decision framework could ensure proper AI-driven improvements in health care and biopharma: ai.jmir.org/2025/1/e57421/

#MedSky #AI
Striking a Balance: Innovation, Equity, and Consistency in AI Health Technologies
With the explosion of innovation driven by generative and traditional AI, comes the necessity to understand and regulate products that often defy current regulatory classification. Tradition, and lac...
ai.jmir.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Published a guide for founding teams selling software into pharma and biotech for the first time – “The Early-Stage GTM Handbook” via the Astera Institute with Abby DeVito and Shu Hu asterainstitute.substack.com/p/the-pharma...
The pharma and biotech sales handbook for software founders
“Resources I wish I had when I was building my startup”
asterainstitute.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
With the gift of time, Brian Takeo Smith and I are dusting off the archives from our seven-chapter Harvard neurotech IP, including a mix of published & unpublished notes

Sharing our little known origin story, which started years before founding HumanFirst
blog.andreacoravos.com/the-neurotec...
The Neurotech Compendium: Reflections from the Frontier
Brian Takeo Smith and I are dusting off the archives from our seven-chapter Harvard neurotech IP that has only grown more relevant as our…
blog.andreacoravos.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
After years of company building, my sabbatical is finally allowing me to dust off my unpublished archives.

Finished up a piece on neurotech that I began in grad school—its questions about brain plasticity and neurorights feel more urgent than ever

blog.andreacoravos.com/evolution-of...
Evolution of the Human Brain: The Past, The Now, and Our Future
Humans are outpacing their own evolution. As scientific advancements accumulate, it can be easy to retreat to the comfort of “the science”…
blog.andreacoravos.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
For the past few weeks a few friends have hopped on a zoom to share demos of stuff they've built with AI.

Ranges from poetry, to YA novels, and Will Patrick's made a slew of amazing demos from a financial model for his board mtg to a cartoon book for his son. willpatrick.xyz/technology/2...
Vibe Code Everything
I have been spending a lot of time vibe coding recently. Now, when I come across a task of any type, I think: could I do it in Cursor? Making a quick financial model? Cursor. Building a 3D model of a ...
willpatrick.xyz
April 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"We can't fix what we can't measure." A conversation with
Dave and me on how sensor tech is revolutionizing clinical trials and enabling earlier disease detection.

Novel data collection is sparking a scientific paradigm shift. innovationlabs.harvard.edu/articles/hum... @harvard.edu
Digital Health Tech Takes On Disease
Founder Andy Coravos and neurosurgeon Dr. David Segar discuss the transformative potential of new technologies for disease prevention and detection.
innovationlabs.harvard.edu
February 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
oh hello, it's been a while.

set up and tinkered with cursorAI until 4:30am last night, and i swear to god it feels like magic

i'm back 👾
i missed those green dots.
February 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Don’t invite me to your Super Bowl party if this isn’t the vibe
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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My new favourite grey heron flyby pic, from a south London park.
#birds #londonbirds #greyheron
January 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Jay on Bluesky: We've been scaling up. There's been about a million people joining a day for the past week
November 20, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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We love links because we love the open web
It is so incredibly nice to have a social platform that values links again - a breath of fresh air in the poisoned ecosystem of the creator economy
November 19, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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Feeding the ravens! They love cashews.
April 13, 2024 at 7:03 PM