Stealthy Eikon unveils $148M in funding and ex-Merck exec Perlmutter at helm
Eikon Therapeutics joins a growing number of startups researching how proteins move in cells as a basis for drug discovery. Roger Perlmutter joins Eikon as its CEO just four months after he retired as Merck’s top research executive.
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Eikon Therapeutics, a new biotech startup that uses advanced techniques for visualizing proteins and combines that capability with computational approaches to drug screening , has emerged from stealth with $148 million in funding and a veteran Merck executive at the helm.
The Series A round of funding that Eikon announced Wednesday was led by The Column Group. Roger Perlmutter, the former president of Merck Research Laboratories is the Hayward, California-based startup’s CEO.
King Abdulaziz Public Library documents Niebuhr’s expedition to Arabia May 05, 2021
King Abdulaziz Public Library (KAPL) has documented Carsten Niebuhr’s expedition to Arabia by issuing a translation of the book “Niebuhr’s Expedition to Arabia”.
RIYADH King Abdulaziz Public Library (KAPL) has documented Carsten Niebuhr’s expedition to Arabia by issuing a translation of the book “Niebuhr’s Expedition to Arabia”, in which he narrates his journey from Denmark to Arabia with six scientists who died before completing the expedition due to illness.
However, the author continued his journey alone, where the goals of the expedition were to answer questions by the French Academy of Sciences on this area of the world.
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On March 26, 2021, the “Sweden-Japan Academic Network” open webinar, co-hosted by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Stockholm Office, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) known as the organization awarding the Nobel Prizes, and the Embassy of Japan in Sweden, took place to memorialise the launch of the Kyushu University Stockholm Liaison Office.
More than 100 researchers and students mainly from Swedish and Japanese universities participated in the webinar. Dan Larhammar, president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, delivered an opening address followed by Shigeyuki Hiroki, ambassador of Japan to Sweden, and Tatsuro Ishibashi, president of Kyushu University. Chihaya Adachi, distinguished professor of Kyushu U and a world-leading researcher in the field of Organic Electro-Luminescence (OEL), represented Japan at the webinar, giving a keynote lecture on his research activity. From the Swedish side, Olle Inganäs, emeritus professor of Link
Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Reuters
By Niklas Pollard and Douglas Busvine
STOCKHOLM/BERLIN (Reuters) - Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Britain s Roger Penrose, professor at the University of Oxford, won half the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) for his proof that black holes are a direct consequence of Albert Einstein s general theory of relativity. It was an extreme honour and great pleasure to hear the news this morning in a slightly unusual way - I had to get out of my shower to hear it, Penrose told reporters from his home in Oxford on Tuesday.