In a recent interview (or two - one with Dan Ball from OAN - Pres. Trump pointed out how Pfizer is VERY politically connected and controls the FDA. Now. Follow the wives - and follow the husbands.
--->CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
----> Husband: Loren Walensky:
"Loren D. Walensky, MD, PhD is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Principal Investigator and Attending Physician in the Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Children’s Hospital Boston, and Director of the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program."
"Dr. Walensky’s work contributed to the founding of Aileron Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA. The company’s first-in-class stapled peptide drug to reactivate p53 in cancer, developed based on Dr. Walensky’s research, is currently being evaluated in Phase I clinical trials."
So what is Aileron Therapeutics?
Aileron Enters Clinical Trial Collaboration with Pfizer to Evaluate ALRN-6924 in Combination with IBRANCE® (palbociclib) in MDM2-Amplified Cancers
Does Aileron have an IPO?
Yes it is listed on the NASDAQ as ALRN
Aileron Therapeutics, Inc. (ALRN)
Chief inside share holder: Reinhard J. Ambros, Ph.D. Reinhard Ambros has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2013
Now ---> Synthetic Genomics Appoints Reinhard J. Ambros, Ph.D., Former Global Head of the Novartis Venture Fund to Board of Directors
What does Synthetic Genomics do?
Synthetic genomics is a nascent field of synthetic biology that uses aspects of genetic modification on pre-existing life forms, or artificial gene synthesis to create new DNA or entire lifeforms.
Polymerase cycling assembly (PCA). PCA was used to generate the first synthetic genome in history, that of the Phi X 174 virus.
What was Phi X 174 virus?
"The phi X 174 (or ΦX174) bacteriophage is a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) virus that infects Escherichia coli, and the first DNA-based genome to be sequenced. This work was completed by Fred Sanger and his team in 1977.[1] In 1962, Walter Fiers and Robert Sinsheimer had already demonstrated the physical, covalently closed circularity of ΦX174 DNA.[2] Nobel prize winner Arthur Kornberg used ΦX174 as a model to first prove that DNA synthesized in a test tube by purified enzymes could produce all the features of a natural virus, ushering in the age of synthetic biology.
Creation of Synthetic Viruses.
Why would you want to create a synthetic virus? What are the implications of doing so? What could go wrong?
Synthetic genomics is a nascent field of synthetic biology that uses aspects of genetic modification on pre-existing life forms, or artificial gene synthesis to create new DNA or entire lifeforms.
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*FACEPALM*
The ‘synthetic virus’ capabilities comes in useful, I bet.
Excellent dig!
Thanks for posting that.