#5: Paul Kohlhaas on Decentralizing Research Funding and the Future of Science

The Long Game with Mehdi Yacoubi

My guest today is Paul Kohlhaas. Paul is the co-Founder and CEO of Molecule, a software platform to accelerate innovation in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. It connects scientists, patients, and industry to advance drug development and therapeutics in an open market. To achieve this, Molecule employs Web3 and blockchain technology to leverage the power of distributed incentive-based ecosystems.

We start the conversation by talking about what Molecule is trying to achieve with scientific funding. Paul explains the current projects they're working on; then he explains why crowdfunding could help avoid the valley of death in science. We talk about the cultural and social aspects of science that will need to change in the future. My favorite part of the episode was to hear Paul's prediction about where science will be in ten years from now.

Please, enjoy my conversation with Paul Kohlhaas.

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You can find the show notes here!

The topics we cover in the discussion:

• What Molecule is doing
• The funding problem in science & academia
• The valley of death in science
• How to speed up discoveries — where is the bottleneck right now?
• Creating an open market for pharmaceutical innovation
• The work of Molecule on the distributed ownership structure for drug development
• Bringing decentralized research to science
• The future of biotech/science
• Paul's favorite underrated books

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