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Jeffrey Kim and the education of a restless builder
Before Slingshot Biosciences, there were music sessions in New York, a laboratory in a California basement and a habit of doing things himself. Jeffrey Kim’s career follows the questions that would not leave him alone.
Marc Tessier-Lavigne and the Long Search for a Better Map
A change of mind on a ship to Oxford led to a career tracing how neurons find their way. Now the scientist and former university president is betting that better maps of biology can help Xaira find better medicines.
Noel Goddard
Noel Goddard is the CEO of Qunnect, a Brooklyn-based quantum networking company building hardware that turns ordinary telecom fiber into quantum-secure networks - at room temperature, no exotic cooling required. A biophysicist with a Rockefeller PhD and a Harvard fellowship, she taught physics at Hunter College, founded two biotech startups, and worked as a deep-tech seed investor before joining Qunnect in 2020 as COO and then CEO. Under her, Qunnect commercialized the world's first room-temperature quantum memory, ran a 34km entanglement link over live New York City fiber, and raised an oversubscribed Series A led by Airbus Ventures.