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Morgan Cheatham, MD

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Morgan Cheatham, MD

@morgancheatham

partner, head of healthcare + life sciences @BreyerCap | medical geneticist @harvard | editorial @NEJM_AI @decodingbio | bayesian

Brooklyn

morgancheatham.substack.com

Joined October 2016

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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Jun 24, 2025
excited to share @BreyerCap's latest healthcare thesis with my partner, @jimihendrixlive. healthcare is at an inflection point. scientific discovery is accelerating, but systems of translation remain structurally stagnant. the result is a widening chasm between what’s possible
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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Feb 17, 2022
everybody tryna be an early-stage investor but nobody tryna take early-stage risk
Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Feb 13, 2023
doximity launched Docs GPT last week. it's a workflow tool that can generate clinical correspondence, denial appeals letters, procedure notes, progress notes, referrals, patient education, and more -- supported by a robust prompt library.
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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Jan 10, 2023
last night I asked one of the most prolific bioinformaticians (h index > 100) - if he could do a PhD right now, what would he focus on? without hesitation he said “clinical data from EHRs. we haven’t even scratched the surface.”
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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Apr 24, 2025
some news! i've joined @BreyerCap as Partner and Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences.
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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Nov 19, 2022
stumbled across this new "genomics for engineers" resource - written "by computer scientists for computer scientists." i found the plain-English overviews of genomics file formats (FASTQ, BAM, VCF) + tooling (BLAST, BLAT, BWA, STAR, etc.) super helpful. learngenomics.dev
Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Feb 8, 2025
microplastics removal (from blood + tissues) strikes me as one of the largest opportunities in biotech over the next decade. anyone working on this?
Eric Topol
@EricTopol
Feb 3, 2025
A paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published @NatureMedicine, open-access nature.com/articles/s4159… I review the background and major implications in a new Ground Truths edition (link in my profile)
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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Sep 7, 2022
new benchmark for health tech founders: build a product that becomes so entrenched that thousands of people pay $75k/year to a third party in order to learn how to use it
Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
May 5, 2025
prediction: AI will collapse traditional medical specialties as we know them. medical specialties emerged out of necessity. as medicine became more complex, no single physician could master its full scope. we began dividing care by organ systems, technologies, and life stages —
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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Mar 21, 2022
over the last few years, I've met with thousands of startups raising capital + have supported many portfolio companies doing the same. here are some best practices for fundraising efficiently that I've learned from rockstar CEOs:
Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Nov 27, 2023
early-stage VC is doubling down on bio, AI, and health
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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Jul 8, 2024
Replying to @nikillinit
tuition-free medical school may attract many people who avoid the profession because they aren't positioned / don't want to take on six-figures of debt in their early 20's. it won't solve the residency choke point but can help address selection bias in who considers the
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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Jun 5, 2025
command line medicine launched today: med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/…
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Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham
Jul 1, 2025
what happens when AI commoditizes diagnosis?
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