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David Lee

@DavidJ_Lee

Former Academic| Developmental & Metabolic Neuroscience PhD @AnatomyTrinity @TrinityMed1 @tcddublin|

 South Dublin, Ireland
linkedin.com/in/david-lee-phd-6517b8122
Joined July 2017
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I graduated with my PhD last Thursday! 🎓 it was such an amazing day. Thanks to all who came down to say hello and to everyone @AnatomyTrinity and my supervisor @DS_Barry for the last 6 years 🧠It was also great to celebrate Provost @LindaDoyle birthday - happy birthday again 🎉
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Jacob Coxon
@hilbertspaessSep 9
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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We're thrilled to announce the 2026 #KavliPrize Laureates, scientists pushing boundaries of what humanity knows in #astrophysics #nanoscience #neuroscience. They have revealed new chapters in the story of our universe, the smallest materials, and how the brain works. 1/2
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@EricTopolJun 12
For medical information, general AI frontier models (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic) outperformed specialized @openevidence and @UpToDate as assessed by 12 US clinicians, randomized and blinded to which model and extensive testing/benchmarks. This was not anticipated. @NatureMedicine nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
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@EricTopolApr 23
New @ScienceMagazine Why is the heart resistant to cancer? Role of the heart beat! Mechanical force helps protect the heart from cancer science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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A master mass here from Micheal Martin on how to speak fluently and diplomatically - while also standing up for values, peace and European allies -
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@atruparMar 17
After Trump disses Starmer, Irish leader Micheál Martin jumps in to defend Starmer and encourages Trump to get along with him. Martin then pivots to defending Ukraine -- a country Trump also dissed earlier in the event.
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@EricTopolFeb 25
New @Nature The brains of Super Agers produce more neurons than people some 40 years younger, a neurogenesis resilient signature linked to exceptional cognitive health and memory skills nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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@EricTopolJan 12
A few days ago it was @OpenAI, now @Anthropic. The others soon. The push into healthcare anthropic.com/news/healthcar…
Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences

Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences

Claude for Healthcare brings HIPAA-ready infrastructure, plus new life sciences tools and connectors to CMS, Medidata, and ClinicalTrials.gov.

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James Zou@james_y_zouJan 6
Today in @NatureMedicine we report that AI can predict 130 diseases from 1 night of sleep🛌 We trained a foundation model (#SleepFM) on 585K hours of sleep recordings from 65K people—brain, heart, muscle & breathing signals combined. AI learns the language of sleep🧵
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Neurons help gliomas grow. Discover how in the first #BrainPrize2025 webinar with @Michelle_Monje and Frank Winkler - pioneering insights reshaping brain cancer research. Watch the webinar: youtu.be/k6Pgbq5IZGI?si=dwnu… #CancerNeuroscience #Webinar
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Important analysis of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry from @RoryStewartUK & @campbellclaret on @RestIsPolitics open.spotify.com/episode/0x7…

471. Rory Stewart: How the Government Tried to Silence Me on Lockdowns

The Rest Is Politics · Episode

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My lab’s microbial-opsin work (and by far most of the field also) is pure basic science, but it was intriguing to review the community's clinical progress– both direct translation as in retinal degeneration, and indirect translation not involving gene therapy– with a wonderful and broad international team of co-authors… nature.com/articles/s41593-0… & to adapt a long-ago figure from PMID:28912215 (2017) on the inner workings of light-gated ion channels with my long-time collaborator Peter Hegemann; photo is a memory from that year.
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This is a big advance, folks. We've never had a disease-modifying drug for this devastating inherited disease science.org/content/article/… washingtonpost.com/health/20… economist.com/science-and-te…
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A few months ago, we were both excited and nervous to stage a public face-off at @Harvard between “Dr. CaBot,” our AI system that simulates an @NEJM expert discussant, and a real @NEJM discussant & expert diagnostician. Today, @DhruvKhullar tells the story in The New Yorker.
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"Chemogenetics 'cures' cancer?!" Social interaction in mice suppresses breast cancer progression via a corticoamygdala neural circuit cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
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@EricTopol4 Aug 2025
One in 4 people carry one copy of the APOE4 allele, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. We've just learned how that risk is mediated—the immune system erictopol.substack.com/p/our…
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***Job Alert*** Not just one! but 2 fantastic opportunities to join the Anatomy Discipline Team🤗 as Teaching Fellow Or Demonstrator🧠🫀🦴- Closing Date July 14th Details 👇universityvacancies.com/trin… universityvacancies.com/trin… @TrintyMed1
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Erm @MattMcElheron is not only smart but also kind and hilarious. Great opportunity!
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🚨PhD Opportunity - Antiviral Immunity & Ageing🧬 Join @NollaigBourke & me at @tcddublin to explore IFN-I biology, ageing, & frailty using multi-omics & clinical data. 💶 €25K stipend + EU fees 📍 @TCDTMI, @stjamesdublin ⏰ Apply by July 9 🔗my.corehr.com/pls/trrecruit/… pls RT
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@EricTopol1 Jul 2025
Yes. The time is now. Vaccines to treat and prevent cancer. jci.org/articles/view/195673
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Morning. After visiting few proud foreign cities recently from Vilnius to Bilbao, the dereliction and shabbiness of Dublin is shocking, and getting worse. We need to sort this out quickly, with the right financial incentives. Here's a few ideas. irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/…
David McWilliams: What’s stopping us converting O’Connell St into a residential district?

David McWilliams: What’s stopping us converting O’Connell St into a residential district?

Incentives to developers do work. Take the example of Parliament Street, in the heart of the city

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The pioneer of cancer neuroscience, @michelle_monje, w/ Frank Winkler @BrainPrize, profiled @TheLancet today @Stanford @StanfordMed @KarlDeisseroth thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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