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Bret Henning liked thisBret Henning liked thisWe’re excited to announce the acceptance of an abstract for poster presentation at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago. We look forward to sharing updated safety and efficacy results from the Phase 1 portion of our ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical study of our potential best-in-class cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) selective inhibitor. #breastcancer #solidtumors #ASCO26 https://bit.ly/4sRNa7o
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Bret Henning liked thisBret Henning liked thisA startup gets acquired for $50M. The buyer walks away 3 weeks later. Why? They skipped technical due diligence. Here's the checklist that prevents those disasters: → Code Quality Assessment Clean code isn't optional. Messy code costs millions in refactoring. → Architecture Review Criteria Does the system scale? Or does it break at 10,000 users? → Security Audit Requirements One vulnerability exposes everything. Audit before you sign. → Scalability Evaluation Growth kills weak infrastructure. Test the limits now. → Technical Debt Analysis Hidden debt becomes your problem. Quantify it early. → Team Capability Review The team built it. Do they understand what they built? → IP Ownership Verification Who owns the code? Verify every line, every license. → Infrastructure Assessment Cloud costs, server dependencies, uptime history. All of it matters. → Vendor Dependencies Third-party tools control your fate. Know what breaks if they leave. → Risk Mitigation Plan What breaks first? Have the plan before the crisis hits. Technical due diligence isn't paperwork. It's the difference between a smart acquisition and a $50M mistake. 🔄 Repost this if you've seen deals collapse from skipped tech reviews. ➡️ Follow Jegan for insights on building and evaluating technical systems.
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Bret Henning liked thisI've always been passionate about technologies that solve critical bottlenecks. That's why I am proud to step into the role of leading the sales and marketing teams at Rapid Micro Biosystems. The Growth Direct platform is a game-changer for the industry and our mission is to ensure that every organization has the tools they need to bring therapies to patients faster and more safely.Bret Henning liked thisWe’re delighted to welcome Katherine Atkinson as Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing at Rapid Micro Biosystems. Katherine is a global commercial leader with more than 25 years of experience across diagnostics, precision medicine, and life sciences, with deep expertise in scaling innovative biotech and diagnostic companies. Prior to joining Rapid Micro Biosystems, she held senior commercial leadership roles at Quantum-Si, Evofem Biosciences, Truvian Health, and Epic Sciences, following earlier leadership roles at Illumina and Beckman Coulter focused on global sales growth, strategic partnerships, and international expansion.
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Bret Henning liked thisBret Henning liked thisAfter much reflection, I’m sharing that I have retired from Alexandria Real Estate Equities. I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have been part of an organization that sits at the intersection of real estate, science, and innovation. What made the experience truly special, however, were the people. I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to Joel Marcus and the Board of Directors for taking a chance 15 years ago on a developer with a well-known penchant for demolishing buildings. I hope the life science campuses that rose out of the rubble were worth all the trouble. Your trust and long-term conviction made it possible to do meaningful, lasting work. To my dear friends and colleagues—Peter Moglia, Hunter Kass, Hart Cole, Hallie Kuhn, Steve Van Soelen, Jesse Nelson—and to all the Alexandrians at large: thank you. Your professionalism, integrity, humor, and friendship made the journey meaningful and memorable. Working alongside such talented and committed people has been a genuine honor. I also want to express my deep affection and appreciation for Michael Boss and the entire San Diego team. Your hard work, diligence, and shared commitment helped change the face of San Diego real estate. Watching that work take shape alongside such a dedicated group was a true privilege. I will miss the heck out of all of you—but I won’t miss approving expense reports! I also want to acknowledge the special place in my heart reserved for Bret Gossett—my partner, who has been a dear friend for more than 20 years. He joined me on the mind-numbing adventure that began when we sold the assets of Veralliance Properties to Alexandria. You are truly one of one, and I could not have asked for a better leader by my side. Thank you to the numerous consultants, designers, builders, and operators who gave their utmost to deliver the very best to Alexandria—an icon in the REIT universe. Thank you for your passionate service. As I step into retirement, I’m looking forward to more family time, more me time, more tennis (ugh that backhand volley), and seeing how I can contribute to a more resilient community and America. With love and admiration, Daniel J. Ryan
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Bret Henning liked thisBret Henning liked thisI am nearing a major milestone in my retirement engineering project: ASA EmulatR, a high-fidelity Alpha AXP / EV6 emulator with the long-term goal of running SRM firmware and operating systems like OpenVMS, Tru64, and Linux. The design has focused on SMP support from the start (since April 2025) and very high performance on Qt. At this stage, I have exceeded my performance objective, and the system has 19 core subsystems completed and integrated. This week I got SRM firmware loading + verification working, staged multi-CPU bring-up, and completed a high-performance asynchronous logging system with an optional instruction-level execution trace (useful for short "transaction" captures and possible post-mortem replay). It has been a fun blend of CPU micro-architecture, SMP, memory systems, firmware bring-up, and performance engineering. Boot-time init is now about 170 ms, including 32 GB sparse RAM backing (ES40-class is documented up to 32 GB; the emulator architecture is being built to scale beyond that for future targets). Next up: wiring the CPU execution path into the SRM entry point and chasing the first SRM console prompt: ">>>". After SRM comes bootstrapping OpenVMS/Tru64/Linux and expanding device coverage. If you worked on Alpha, SRM, or OpenVMS, I would love to compare notes. #SystemsProgramming #Emulation #Virtualization #CPlusPlus #Qt #OperatingSystems #LowLevel #RetroComputing #OpenVMS #AlphaAXP
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Bret Henning liked thisBret Henning liked thisIf you know me, you know my career has always been about advancing health technologies while advocating for the humans that use them. Now, I’m excited to step into a new role at Google as the Head of AI Health Coaching. Google is building next-gen, safe, personalized AI-powered health and wellness technologies grounded in science, informed by users, and iteratively designed. I'll be mostly focused on the Personal Health Coach built with Gemini, to start. It’s an opportunity to continue building the connective tissue between human behavior, health needs, and emerging technology. The field is advancing fast, and there’s a lot of room for positive impact. I'm thrilled to join Jacqueline Shreibati, MD Megan Jones Bell Michael Howell, MD MPH Amy McDonough Bakul Patel Google for Health and the talented teams across Google. The work is publicly available, learn more about it here: https://lnkd.in/gDs3VkTG
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