Highlights from DOC’s Yountville Gathering – Ariel Ganz
Ariel Ganz, Postdoc at Stanford University School of Medicine & General Partner at Arben Ventures, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Hosted at a beautiful estate in Yountville, DOC brought together medical doctors, scientists, entrepreneurs and investors to talk about truth in medicine. How do we think about AI and medicine? Should aging be classified as a disease?
My favorite segment was the first where we learned about neuroscience, mapping the brain, helping paralyzed people to speak, drug delivery to the brain and the future of new senses from David Eagleman, Eddie Chang, MD MBA and Arjun Desai.
Also loved hearing about whether aging should be classified as a disease, including Eric Verdin’s perspective that aging itself shouldn’t be, but pathological sub categories that are more diagnostic and actionable should be. (Hope I did this justice!)
Thank you so much Jordan Shlain, MD AlleyCorp, John Battelle I am beyond grateful to have gotten to come and already we will back several startups who we met.
A few notable startup innovators:
Douglas Spitz changing the future of healthcare with molecular iodine
Jamie Heywood using Ai to map proteomics to predict clinical biomarkers and biological age
Leo Grady personalized microbiome testing with AI to compare your sample to the entire academic literature at Jona — can order this now!!!
Christin Glorioso, MD PHD brain aging clock NeuroAge Therapeutics. The clock integrates brain MRI, transcriptomics of 52 genes, cognitive testing and genetics and is based on 20 years of research.
Laura Towart working on personalized oncology solutions through comprehensive, genomics-based drug screening technology paired with AI/ML to personalise cancer treatment
Amie Leighton working on mental health and AI to integrate multi-modal data such as eeg, wearables, voice, tone, and word choice into clinical decision making (Arben portco)
Leanne Williams who is the first to create truly data driven subtypes for depression that significantly improve treatment outcomes using fMRI
David Eagleman has created a wristband that helps people who are deaf to sense sounds via unique vibratory patterns on the wrist
Loewen Cavill am MIT grad innovating in women’s health at Amira Health focusing on menopause and hot flash prevention using wearables that sync with automated cooling tech to improve sleep and qualify of life
Aloe Blacc innovating with researchers at the university of Houston using synthetic peptides to create better treatments across oncology, infectious disease, and autoimmune disregulation at Major, inc
Siranush Babakhanova PhD student who started an amazing Deep Tech venture fund
David Fisch working to improve the lives of 350 million people with rare disease.
Thank you Allison and Flora Lels-Carpenter for organizing and Jordan for nominating me as fellow. It was so unbelievably special to be a part of.”
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