#5: Paul Kohlhaas on Decentralizing Research Funding and the Future of Science

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The Long Game with Mehdi Yacoubi

Mehdi Yacoubi

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6 days ago

A deep dive into the challenges of our time, and the ideas, technologies, and businesses that will help us overcome them. The purpose of The Long Game Podcast is to catalyze progress and innovation to make our future better. The episodes feature long-form conversations with tech industry leaders, scientists, entrepreneurs, and thinkers. Some guests will be well known, others not yet, but they all share a profound similarity, they have demonstrated unusual insight and see today's challenges with a unique lens.

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#5: Paul Kohlhaas on Decentralizing Research Funding and the Future of Science

The Long Game with Mehdi Yacoubi

1 hour 11 seconds

5 years ago

#5: Paul Kohlhaas on Decentralizing Research Funding and the Future of Science

My guest today is Paul Kohlhaas. Paul is the co-Founder and CEO of Molecule, a software platform to accelerate innovation in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. It connects scientists, patients, and industry to advance drug development and therapeutics in an open market. To achieve this, Molecule employs Web3 and blockchain technology to leverage the power of distributed incentive-based ecosystems.

We start the conversation by talking about what Molecule is trying to achieve with scientific funding. Paul explains the current projects they're working on; then he explains why crowdfunding could help avoid the valley of death in science. We talk about the cultural and social aspects of science that will need to change in the future. My favorite part of the episode was to hear Paul's prediction about where science will be in ten years from now.

Please, enjoy my conversation with Paul Kohlhaas.

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You can find the show notes here!

The topics we cover in the discussion:

What Molecule is doing
The funding problem in science & academia
The valley of death in science
How to speed up discoveries — where is the bottleneck right now?
Creating an open market for pharmaceutical innovation
The work of Molecule on the distributed ownership structure for drug development
Bringing decentralized research to science
The future of biotech/science
Paul's favorite underrated books

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