Rowan Walrath

What are the most important ingredients for chemical innovation? For @cenmag.bsky.social, my colleague Shea Murphy and I sought to find out. 🧵

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What are the most important ingredients for chemical innovation? For @cenmag.bsky.social, my colleague Shea Murphy and I sought to find out. 🧵

These tools are interactive, allowing you to play with data yourself to see what regions are dominant as research centers, chemical industry hubs, and start-up havens—ultimately, whatever matters most to you.

What are the most important ingredients for chemical innovation? For @cenmag.bsky.social, my colleague Shea Murphy and I sought to find out. 🧵

Houston, long the stronghold of the petrochemical industry, is now establishing itself as the geographic cornerstone of the US energy transition.

What are the most important ingredients for chemical innovation? For @cenmag.bsky.social, my colleague Shea Murphy and I sought to find out. 🧵

And you need institutions. Depending on how you’d like your career to unfold, those institutions can include academic centers, big industrial companies, start-up accelerators and incubators, and venture capital firms.

What are the most important ingredients for chemical innovation? For @cenmag.bsky.social, my colleague Shea Murphy and I sought to find out. 🧵

In the picture on her GoFundMe page, Mia Delli Gatti looks bright and cheerful. She sticks out her tongue and curls her left hand into a “rock on” symbol. The sun shines through the short, dark curls that halo her face. 1/

#chemsky #biosky #longcovid #pots #mecfs #pwME #pwLC

In the picture on her GoFundMe page, Mia Delli Gatti looks bright and cheerful. She sticks out her tongue and curls her left hand into a “rock on” symbol. The sun shines through the short, dark curls that halo her face. 1/

Two sets of studies for COVID-driven conditions--one for Vyvgart in long COVID POTS, another for Ampligen in long COVID and ME/CFS--show the struggles of drug development in postinfectious diseases. 12/

In the picture on her GoFundMe page, Mia Delli Gatti looks bright and cheerful. She sticks out her tongue and curls her left hand into a “rock on” symbol. The sun shines through the short, dark curls that halo her face. 1/

Some patients have advocated for expanded-access studies that allow them to keep taking experimental medications. But such studies can imperil a drug’s long-term approval prospects. 10/

In the picture on her GoFundMe page, Mia Delli Gatti looks bright and cheerful. She sticks out her tongue and curls her left hand into a “rock on” symbol. The sun shines through the short, dark curls that halo her face. 1/

The GoFundMe, which Delli Gatti set up in November, is part of a last-ditch effort to move development of efgartigimod forward after Delli Gatti and other trial participants were left by the wayside. But nothing is a sure bet in long COVID research. 8/

In the picture on her GoFundMe page, Mia Delli Gatti looks bright and cheerful. She sticks out her tongue and curls her left hand into a “rock on” symbol. The sun shines through the short, dark curls that halo her face. 1/

Long COVID affects more than 400 million people globally, and it’s a complicated, heterogeneous disease that often overlaps with other illnesses, including POTS and myalgic encephalomyelitis. 6/

In the picture on her GoFundMe page, Mia Delli Gatti looks bright and cheerful. She sticks out her tongue and curls her left hand into a “rock on” symbol. The sun shines through the short, dark curls that halo her face. 1/

In 2023, Delli Gatti joined a clinical trial testing a drug called efgartigimod in POTS driven by long COVID, like hers. 4/

In the picture on her GoFundMe page, Mia Delli Gatti looks bright and cheerful. She sticks out her tongue and curls her left hand into a “rock on” symbol. The sun shines through the short, dark curls that halo her face. 1/

In real life, Delli Gatti isn’t always able to muster this kind of energy. Don’t get her wrong—she recently graduated college, and she works part time and makes cupcakes during some of her off hours—but she also lives with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. 2/

Me the other night: “here, let me take a photo of the can since we liked this beer” The photo in the cold light of day: