69 Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail

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. For more information about Night Science, visit .

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69 Keith Yamamoto and the freedom to fail is an episode from Night Science by Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher.

This episode is 40:40 long.

This episode was published on Jan 27, 2025.

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