https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog daily 0.75 2021-12-07 https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/sixteen monthly 0.5 2021-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1623650427387-VK7X3C7FALV34TE1PI3U/tempImagefzYINi.gif blog - sixteen: the birth of brazen bio - Make it stand out Brent and I. (He’s the taller one.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/31944560-ef1e-4004-98bf-4cf88277ef7c/brca_advisory-roygbiv-99LPs.png blog - sixteen: the birth of brazen bio - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/fifteen monthly 0.5 2021-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1613606732207-LMM4BB3S5BCKG7UNO5BV/IMG_5959.jpg blog - fifteen: How I (accidentally) invented a COVID-19 vaccine W. Shawn Carbonell, the inventor of ocular vaccination among other things (circa 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1613605761339-CD3CT59YAOJO3QH0QC8O/Fahlberg.png blog - fifteen: How I (accidentally) invented a COVID-19 vaccine Constantin Fahlberg, the inventor of saccharin (circa 1910). https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/fourteen monthly 0.5 2021-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1592540647476-5MJ01NRIEOYVUEJFLFPP/Screenshot+2020-06-18+21.23.51.png blog - fourteen: my fail-safe method for inventing a new drug PIC: 2019 press release announcing our FDA clearance of the drug candidate I invented. Clinical trial now enrolling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1592539735810-8UF8AF7651NJQAU1PMOJ/Screenshot+2020-06-18+21.08.05.png blog - fourteen: my fail-safe method for inventing a new drug PIC: My 2009 article featured in Nature Reviews Neurology. https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/thirteen monthly 0.5 2020-06-12 https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/twelve monthly 0.5 2020-06-07 https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/eleven monthly 0.5 2020-08-28 https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/ten monthly 0.5 2020-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1590097047233-6VV1LXKL1GPL8TIAEYQT/IMG_2009.jpg blog - ten: the exact moment i wanted to become a doctor PHOTO: Front page of the newspaper I founded (a rare photo of me 2 years before I started shaving my head). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1590095308261-SVOTLW4YH37TJHB4J3DQ/CPR_Adult_Airway.png blog - ten: the exact moment i wanted to become a doctor PHOTO: BruceBlaus / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1590094389056-P8C1PXHLP8CZFUN34NO3/riCV15wimjDx481rdKJADaTzCQ2fK9oNQcBVMDYptBM.png blog - ten: the exact moment i wanted to become a doctor https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/nine monthly 0.5 2020-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1589515577625-4QRN49ELVJMOFR6FFCVZ/bnc-jrf.jpg blog - nine: snuffboy chronicles—homeless in Oxford PHOTO: Four of the BNC science JRFs with the Principal in the SCR Smoking Room. All the JRFs are up to amazing stuff… one is a government leader, another is a professor of cell biology, and one is a physicist who was on the huge team that discovered the Higgs boson (Nobel Prize in 2013). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1589513456788-4UYILHWDXYFQDGIWAJBZ/IMG_7788.jpg blog - nine: snuffboy chronicles—homeless in Oxford PHOTO: Just before my first college dinner in 2007 in my academic gown and BNC tie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1589514108059-RIOUYD73J1Z2Z07CFB0F/MD218_133_bnc_hall_t017.jpg blog - nine: snuffboy chronicles—homeless in Oxford PHOTO: The view towards high table in hall. This was dinner for the quincentennial ball so on this occasion there were no academic gowns worn. You can see my bald head at high table right beneath the wooden unicorn carving with the massive erection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1589514963525-8IFVN6WMF0FK9TK8BK48/518_593821584636_9144_n.jpg blog - nine: snuffboy chronicles—homeless in Oxford PHOTO: The aftermath of one particularly lively “second” dessert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1589511685120-F55YLKNHHUWKL2ZGO75B/Screenshot+2020-05-14+20.01.05.png blog - nine: snuffboy chronicles—homeless in Oxford https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/eight monthly 0.5 2020-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1588877502985-0QKGS7QXRXIVC2JK4GUK/Subduralandherniation.png blog - eight: don’t suck on the mother. fucking. brain. PHOTO: For illustrative purposes only… arrow, large subdural hematoma. (credit: Dr. James Heilman) https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/seven monthly 0.5 2020-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1588322293386-P8SUAS6TVRMHNP03Y7RI/IMG_1018.jpg blog - seven: my 2008 neurosurgery personal statement PHOTO: The Saturday night wrecking crew at the Harborview Emergency Trauma Center (pre-med days). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1588320565275-8TYQWHOZ6DSEV6H96R9R/biloxi2.jpg blog - seven: my 2008 neurosurgery personal statement PHOTO: Dr. Grady and I at my poster at the 2002 Neurotrauma Symposium in Tampa… my second year as a grad student. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1588321060312-7TVZ0JOYMRQFA5D1J9UW/BNC4.jpg blog - seven: my 2008 neurosurgery personal statement PHOTO: Posing in front of high table at Brasenose College, Oxford. As a JRF I could dine at high table any night of the week. Real secret society/Hogwarts/Order of the Phoenix shit… more on that soon… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1588322865968-NGWU4IHC8M8A61MZM6D8/shawn3.JPG blog - seven: my 2008 neurosurgery personal statement PHOTO: Scrubbed into a neurosurgery case at UVA as a 3rd year med student. Here, I’m helping out with the Stealth neuronavigation to verify the approach (by helping out, I mean staying out of their way lol). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1588323206073-L4C5D4GRPSRE94ILUK65/Screenshot+2020-05-01+01.52.52.png blog - seven: my 2008 neurosurgery personal statement PHOTO: My Oxford postdoc work got featured by the BBC News just after I left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1588320750363-ZIDKF2GEAN5NPGCQWWMG/IMG_0011.JPG blog - seven: my 2008 neurosurgery personal statement PHOTO: This was my dedicated PhD bench space in Dr. Mandell’s lab… although I always used the adjacent space as well… it was where I kept my huge vibratome for tissue work. https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/six monthly 0.5 2020-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1587697658367-TWJER3N9O5S6QL2AQZJD/IMG_8422.jpg blog - six: note to self—brush your shoulders off https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1587696826668-NBCEDF8FCNM9OD5X3APO/IMG_8376.jpg blog - six: note to self—brush your shoulders off https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1587698701632-HOPI20JE5KH7HOU8QO7J/IMG_6953.JPG blog - six: note to self—brush your shoulders off https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/five monthly 0.5 2020-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1587027678460-M5AB7JGCYKWKH1A13AI7/IMG_9607.jpg blog - five: the accidental cofounder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1587025986018-ZHJ7KDN0J6L765TB7QOT/IMG_1305.jpg blog - five: the accidental cofounder PHOTO: Covert mission, not so covert collar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1587026328398-T4CZIO8JUQ86B0DVRHS6/You_Doodle_2020-04-16T08_37_59Z.JPG blog - five: the accidental cofounder PHOTO: Origins of an epic evening in NYC with Chris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1587029602997-P8CSBC3HX2J7OB7GCU82/IMG_8360.jpg blog - five: the accidental cofounder PHOTO: In the pews, at Chris’ Brooklyn memorial service on April 27, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1587026468995-IS35404X1LTIXDXVMJ8A/IMG_6971.JPG blog - five: the accidental cofounder PHOTO: NYC whiskey stop #4 with Chris, November 8, 2010. https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/four monthly 0.5 2020-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1586496942480-VVI4MSQ2WWY8UJSMKQGM/times-square.jpg blog - four: why I walked away from my first startup PHOTO: Giving Time’s Square the side-eye last June when I was burned the fuck out and wandering the streets of NYC alone listening to Eckhart Tolle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1586496415927-G3NHX4V8QE6A7SRNP8T4/IMG_3467%2B2.jpg blog - four: why I walked away from my first startup PHOTO: Giving biotech investors the side-eye at a fundraising conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1586498020871-MZQG8Q4761MHL63DYQFC/20131003%2BScience%2BExchange%2B2302%2Bcredit%2BJackson%2BSolway.jpg blog - four: why I walked away from my first startup PHOTO: In my happy place (circa 2013). https://www.brainsurgerydropout.com/blog/three monthly 0.5 2021-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1585876557910-28LECTVR49DH1IBM9VBK/preview-3.jpeg blog - three: i’m founding a biotech (again) Thousands of beautiful vials of OS2966 (circa 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1585877024778-7U2FBTI8982LFFVDGX3O/preview-5.jpeg blog - three: i’m founding a biotech (again) Cure Glioblastoma's Board of Directors (L to R): Luzanne Otte, Barbie Blank, and Dr. Shawn Carbonell. [PS: Don’t worry, I have the support of my board and we will be continuing our mission with brain cancer as outlined on our website.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1585875754464-LEJZI8RC4K78AWJUP71S/preview.jpeg blog - three: i’m founding a biotech (again) - Scrubbing into a neurosurgical case during medical school (circa 2005). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1585876878862-IADGJRTDIX904TPA9SEM/preview-4.jpeg blog - three: i’m founding a biotech (again) One of the several articles written about our Ebola skunkworks (not all of them were glowing). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e3e499ecac0f04ddd4cf2ba/1585876148224-N44PKJNNH8GXULIGGECW/preview-2.jpeg blog - three: i’m founding a biotech (again) The gangsta OncoSynergy lab crew in San Francisco circa 2013. 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