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• GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFRG; BFRGW) ("BullFrog AI" or the "Company"), a precision medicine company using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enable the successful development of pharmaceuticals and biologics, today announced the appointment of Enrique García-Rivera, Ph.D., as its new Vice President of Artificial Intelligence.
• The appointment will further advance BullFrog AI’s best-in-class proprietary bfLEAP™ AI platform that is engineered to enable more accurate predictions of patient disease progression and improve the design of clinical trials to speed safe and effective drug development.
• “We are excited to welcome Enrique to BullFrog AI.
• His vast experience in developing machine learning models and managing large biological databases further augments BullFrog AI’s industry-leading capabilities.

• Co-led by William Abecassis, Braven’s Managing Partner, and Dr. Sean Khozin, Senior Life Sciences & Healthcare Partner, the Unit supports the firm’s unique ‘co-building’ investment strategy.
• "Across healthcare and life sciences, there are countless opportunities for innovation.
• To augment the Unit's capabilities, Braven has enlisted a team of specialized fellows with expertise spanning from pharma development to healthcare provision.
• Braven is an early-stage investment firm focused on breakthrough innovation within regulated ecosystems, starting with financial services, insurance, and healthcare.

• And during the same month in Norway, three scientists were arrested for protesting the nation’s slow-moving climate policy.
• We’re interested in how the surge in science activism may be changing the norms of scientific research.
• With colleagues, we recently reviewed and summarized a growing body of studies examining how scientists are mobilizing for social activism and political protest.

A new wave of science activism

• Science activism has long been considered taboo, as many in the field fear that politicizing science undermines its objectivity.
• More recently, the election of Donald Trump in 2016 triggered a wave of political mobilization not seen in the United States since the Vietnam War era.
• In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change activism, Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement, scientists have also mobilized, and science advocacy organizations are playing important roles.
• A new course taught by an MIT physics professor titled “Scientist Activism: Gender, Race and Power” helps raise student awareness about the political nature of science.

Professional norms may be shifting

• However, we also expect that impending crises, like climate change, may be driving acceptance of activism within the scientific community.
• But this near-uniform level of support for political action suggests that the professional norms that have long sanctioned scientist activism may be shifting.
• Scientist activism often entails some level of personal or professional risk.
• Although they are more likely to be rewarded for this activity, they are exposed to greater risk for doing so.

Emerging lessons

• Two lessons emerge from our research thus far.
• First, our findings indicate that science activism may be gaining legitimacy within the scientific community.
• Second, because race unevenly structures scientists’ experiences with activism, science activists can build on their current momentum by
  embracing intersectional solidarity.

• Washington, DC, July 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United States Mint (Mint) announces the appointment of Dr. Christopher Capozzola to a four-year term on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) as the member Specially Qualified in American history.
• Deputy Treasury Secretary Adeyemo appointed Dr. Capozzola on May 29, 2023, and he will be formally sworn in at the next public CCAC meeting.
• Capozzola is Professor of History and Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
• At MIT, he teaches courses in political and legal history, war and the military, and the history of international migration.