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69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail

69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail

Update: 2025-01-27
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Keith Yamamoto, professor and science policy leader at UCSF, discusses with us how modern science became trapped in a system that discourages creative risk-taking. Keith contrasts academia's fear of failure with Silicon Valley's acceptance of it as just another day at the office. We also talk about Keith’s introduction of a new NIH grant category specifically for paradigm-challenging ideas, where he deliberately chose generalist reviewers rather than domain experts who might reject ideas threatening their own paradigms.
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69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail

69 | Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail

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