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Medicine

Clinical research, drug trials, guidelines, and translational work.

Oncology immunotherapy

Checkpoint inhibitors, CAR-T, bispecifics — mechanistic and clinical research.

Long COVID research

Mechanisms, cardiac sequelae, neurological presentations, clinical trials.

GLP-1 receptor agonists

Cardiovascular outcomes, non-diabetic indications, safety signals.

Rare diseases research

Orphan indications, n=1 genomic medicine, gene therapy for small populations.

CRISPR gene editing

Prime editing, base editing, in vivo delivery, therapeutic applications.

Antimicrobial resistance

Resistance surveillance, novel antibiotics, phage therapy, stewardship.

Mental health research

Novel therapeutics (psychedelics, ketamine), digital interventions, RCTs.

AI & ML

Large language models, agents, interpretability, and evaluation.

LLM agents and tool use

Multi-step agents, tool calling, memory, reliability, evaluation harnesses.

Retrieval-augmented generation

Hybrid retrievers, late interaction, evaluation, long-context.

LLM evaluation and benchmarks

Benchmark design, contamination, human evals, agentic task suites.

AI safety and alignment

Red teaming, interpretability, RLHF, scalable oversight.

Medical computer vision

Radiology AI, pathology AI, foundation models for medical imaging.

Climate & Energy

Climate adaptation, clean energy technology, and policy-linked research.

Climate adaptation

Resilience, adaptation finance, infrastructure, vulnerable populations.

Carbon dioxide removal

Direct air capture, enhanced weathering, biochar, ocean CDR.

Solid-state batteries

Sulfide and oxide electrolytes, manufacturing, scale-up challenges.

Finance & Fintech

Crypto regulation, VC dynamics, and quantitative finance.

Fintech regulation

Open banking, PSD3, crypto regulation, digital identity.

Cryptocurrency regulation

MiCA implementation, stablecoin policy, DeFi and sanctions compliance.

VC exits and dilution

Founder equity outcomes, exit timing, follow-on dynamics.

Central bank digital currencies

Retail and wholesale CBDC design, interoperability, privacy.

Policy & Society

Regulation, public health, and cross-disciplinary policy research.

Cybersecurity policy

Disclosure regulation, CISA frameworks, EU NIS2, supply chain security.

Public health preparedness

Pandemic preparedness, biosurveillance, response policy evaluations.

Frontier Science

Physics, biology, computational chemistry, and quantitative disciplines.

Quantum computing

Fault-tolerant architectures, quantum error correction, near-term algorithms.

Nuclear fusion

Inertial confinement, tokamaks, stellarators, plasma control ML.

Single-cell transcriptomics

scRNA-seq methods, spatial transcriptomics, rare cell identification.