Hi friends,
This week: GCSE Romeo and Juliet, jazzy consultancy reports, and an acute acute* aside.
News bites 🥪
🔬 BioGPT is a Microsoft language model trained for biomedical tasks - This is a top-tier piece of analysis from The Decoder’s Matthias Bastian.
🍽 Big Pharma offers menu of partnering options, but biotechs want licensing entrée - Pigeon had no idea entrée had an accent. But then Pigeon eats out of bins.
🔮 The Future of Digital Health - A jazzy little report from Boston Consulting Group that zips along at a lovely pace, and finishes with some erudite observations. 8/10 and my personal ‘Best Report of the Week’ award. *Polite applause*
💙 Why user needs should be at the heart of healthtech - The first line of this article should be compulsory reading for anyone selling into the NHS.
🩺 Why the growth of gut-tech could transform female health outcomes - Recent breakthroughs in our understanding of the function of the human gut have fuelled a significant increase in innovation in the gut health space.
✋ Scientists grow artificial skin into the shape of a human hand - Scientists have developed artificial skin that can be applied like ‘biological clothing’. Aaaand that’s enough internet for today.
📝 Medical technology strategy launched - Pigeon’s Year 11 English teacher once described Pigeon’s report on Romeo and Juliet as ‘five pages with zero substance’. This appears to have been the brief for DHSC, but spread over the 49 pages of bumph they’ve flopped into existence.
What to listen to 🔊
🎧 #290 Building a Successful Healthtech Team with Chris Caulfield - This week, we are throwing it back to episode 105 with Chris Caulfield, registered nurse, Union leader and co-founder of Intelycare
Opportunities 🕵️♀️
💵 Medical Student, Luna - Yes, Luna. Yes, yes, yes. We’re all about paying interns here at Pigeon Towers. Top marks.
⏱ Doctors in Industry Incubator - Waitlist - The opening line to this is a contender for understatement of the year: ‘Many doctors struggle with a lack of structure and approach to getting the industry opportunities they want.’
🤹♀️ Co-founder, Mens' Health, Holland and Barrett - Pigeon has always felt that Holland and Barrett sound like a forgotten 80s comedy duo like Cannon and Ball or Hale and Pace. A joke there for anyone born between 1972 and 1983. With apologies to everyone else.
*The double acute is deliberate. [Feel like this joke might be a bit pretentious, but up to you - Ed]