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Ciphon finds professors by topic, surfaces what they actually work on, and helps you write emails grounded in their papers. We built it because the cold-email process is broken for students and professors alike.

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Sparse attention for protein-ligand affinity at scale

NeurIPS · 2025

Self-supervised pretraining for cryo-EM density maps

Nature Methods · 2024

Scaling laws for models in structural biology

ICML · 2023

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Tom.aldgate@northfield.edu

SubjectYour work on protein-ligand prediction

Hi Professor Aldgate,

I was fascinated by your paper on sparse attention for protein-ligand affinity, especially how it reduces the scaling bottleneck.

Would you have fifteen minutes to discuss your lab's work?

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