Adam Marblestone | Focused Research Organizations
Bio | Adam Marblestone is the CEO of Convergent Research, and a consultant for the Astera Institute. They''ve been launching Focused Research Organizations (FROs) such as E11 bio, Cultivarium and Rejuvenome. He serves on the boards of several non-profits pursuing new methods of funding and organizing scientific research including Norn Group and New Science. Previously, he was a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow, a Fellow with the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a research scientist at Google DeepMind, Chief Strategy Officer of the brain-computer interface company Kernel, a research scientist at MIT, a PhD student in biophysics with George Church and colleagues at Harvard, and a theoretical physics student at Yale. He also previously helped to start companies like BioBright, and advised foundations such as the Open Philanthropy Project. His work has been recognized with a Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Award (2018), a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship (2010) and a Goldwater Scholarship (2008).
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Summary | Adam Marblestone has spent his career working at cutting-edge science organizations, spanning academia and industry. Now he's building his own. His proposal to create Focused Research Organizations (FROs) has galvanized support and engagement from both funders and scientists. Additionally, he is pioneering the use of roadmaps as a longitudinal tool to help scientific disciplines overcome bottlenecks.
The Focused Research Organization (FRO) elevator pitch: pic.twitter.com/XvCVUWOGnH
— science better (@scibetter) December 8, 2021
The FRO is an incredibly generative concept. Just asking the question gets researchers and funders into a new idea space, and becomes a great matchmaking tool for ideas and resources. pic.twitter.com/UpqeZoUy7v
— science better (@scibetter) December 8, 2021
How scientific roadmapping can serve as a launching point for where new FROs could and should exist. pic.twitter.com/QAEmjLWxVd
— science better (@scibetter) December 8, 2021