Samer Mouksassi

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Excited to launch the @ASCPT Oncology Community monthly blog series. I have the privilege of leading this initiative! This month: getting the dose right in modern oncology. Next month: pharmacometrics in oncology. More expert insights coming soon. Interested in contributing?

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I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup. After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach. Were we solving the right problem? What were we doing wrong? Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing? Were we the right team to build this? We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem. Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round. That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work. We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors. We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage. Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper. And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected. And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works. So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then: Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process (because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder). So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years. Here's what you are getting: • The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C) • 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI • A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually) • An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed) Want access? • Like and share this post • Comment "FUNDRAISE" • Follow me so I can DM you the link I'll send it over ASAP. P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.

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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major hashtag #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release here: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09/g…

Really excellent work here! Random forest and XGBoost are overused, overhyped, and likely lead to worse decision making than if not used. That these are to facilitate “precision medicine” is a misunderstanding of the techniques and curse of dimensionality @RWJE_BA @f2harrell

@f2harrell Yes using a function is much more readable, data.table has some built in optimized fast functions but in this case base R is sufficient thanks for sharing!

@POPPKPD Excellent question. I don’t think you’ll notice a timing difference, but in general when you write a function, R byte-compiles it which makes it run faster than open code. But the reason I use function g is for much easier unit testing/debugging + easier reading.

By using large language models as R data.table coding assistants, there are even fewer reasons to avoid the elegance and speed of data.table for data manipulation/aggregation/complex longitudinal data processing: #sec-long-ai" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hbiostat.org/rflow/long#sec… #RStats

I'm pleased to announce the release of scales 1.4.0 for #rstats. While scales mainly exists to serve #ggplot2, this release packs a bunch of improvements that is good to be aware of. Read more at tidyverse.org/blog/2025/04/s…

@Gebran_Bassil Not attending the funeral of those who protected you to be shadow president, while you covered up all their crimes towards the Lebanese people, won't erase who you are...

الفرق ان حزب الله خسر بحرب اسناد غزّة وبوحدة الساحات وخسّرنا معه معادلة ردع اسرائيل، وخسر الشرعية الوطنية بمقاومة اسرائيل وحده، فتمّ حذف كلمة مقاومة من البيان الوزاري، ولكن لم يفقد لبنان شرعية "مقاومة" الاحتلال، ولا فقد حزب الله شرعيّته الشعبية

@LaRevolte_LEB We have to look forward not backward and live in peace

@trumanfrancis I’m seeing less and less appropriateness of time-to-event analysis as patient outcomes are more complex and rich than that (including up and down responses over time), so I’m using Markov state transition models more. But for causality I refer to experts in g-estimation.

@Gebran_Bassil In a real democracy one deputy become independent when he is out of a party. Also elections are redone at any moment should no clear majority can form a government. You teach people how to run a country without a government and how to be undemocratic. Wake up people

تصوّروا منوّصل نائب بأصوات التيار بس ما فينا نضمن التزامه بكتلة التيار لأن ما منعرف اذا رح يلتزم ويصوّت معنا أو ضدّنا. تخيّلوا لو بيصير هيك بحزب تاني بلبنان او برّا لبنان!

@GermanosPeter @DrSamirGeagea Mr @GermanosPeter , in a true democracy politics has nothing to do with religion and when a government lose majority we redo election.

@DrSamirGeagea لأول مرة سأتكلم كلام ذات بعد "طائفي". الديموقراطية في لبنان متناسبة proportional لاعداد المسيحيين فيه. لا يوجد دولة شرق اوسطية فيها "ديموقراطية" بإستثناء لبنان بين ١٩٤٣ و١٩٧٥. لا يليق بلبنان حاليا الا "لويا جيرغا" او تجمع العلماء وزعماء القبائل الافغانية. صب حكيم صب

دولة الرئيس بري: نحنا مبسوطين فيك إنك ما بتخفش من التهديدات، وعلى هذا الأساس بما إنك ما بتخفش من التهديدات، وما بتخفش من شي، فيك تدعي لجلسة انتخابات رئاسية جدية بدورات متتالية تا ننتخب رئيس للجمهورية تنفرج مع انتخابه قلوب اللبنانيين ولو من هالناحية.

I've updated my template for @quarto_pub statistical reports using R: #template" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hbiostat.org/rr/#template #rstats #Statistics . Thanks to @vandy_biostat Max Rohde for starting this template and introducing me to Quarto

@MHRAgovuk @fwojara @SeniorCymo @DrKarleenG @milkymedics @BritJClinPharm @BritPharmSoc @cwhalleypub @Pharmaforkids @MHRAmedicines Also delightful to see Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modelling getting a specific mention by Dame June Raines in her powerful call to action. @ShakirAtoyebi @aeolagunju @Jo_ClinPharmcst @BritJClinPharm #AtTheEquatorUG @ProjectMADAM

We have a new nlmixr2 blog entry courtesy of Hitesh Mistry (@HilsethMistrov) and Nicola Melillo (@NicolaMelil) detailing how to upscale nlmixr2 using AWS. This is helpful for long running SAEM models. In the future it may be even more interesting with other methods parallelized.

#DigitalHealthAfrica2024 Clarence Mbanga from DAC-A provides shocking statistics on the number of clinical trials which are ineffective and may represent missed opportunity. The DAC-A review process provides a structured constructive review to enhance quality

#DigitalHealthAfrica2024 @POPPKPD gives a clear overview of how PK modelling has developed since 1977 to now be able to inform precise dosing for clinically complex individuals. Further development of #AI alongside these approaches should help streamline clinical decision making

The sun is setting over Lake Victoria. It's nearly time for #DigitalHealthAfrica2024! As final preparations are underway, there is still time to register: digitalhealthafrica.org/register/ Check out the programme: digitalhealthafrica.org/programme/ #AtTheEquatorUG