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About the Speaker
Dr. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist with over 20 years of innovative biomedical research and clinical experience. He is an NIH funded faculty member with the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and is on clinical faculty with the UCSF pediatric bone marrow transplantation service.

Daniel’s research has focused on novel therapies involving stem cells, including understanding and manipulating the stem cell niche (recently published in Nature and Science). Daniel is the inventor of the recently FDA approved ”MarrowMiner” device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founder of StemCor systems, a clinical stage company which is developing the MarrowMiner and other tools and technologies to enable regenerative medicine.

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About the Talk
A discussion of what insights can be learned by studying your brain’s activity during sleep.

About the Speaker
Dr. Philip Steven Low is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO, NeuroVigil, Inc. He’s also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford School of Medicine, and Research Affiliate of MIT Media Lab & The Salk Institute.

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About the Talk
Today, doctors are manipulated by the fear of malpractice into recommending unnecessary procedures that individuals accept because of an information disadvantage. We have little compulsion to overcome this disadvantage because we are not the primary buyers of our own health care. The current position is untenable, and it’s in our interest to influence more systemic governmental change with the free market. There are models we can build off, and the first step to getting there is creating patient-advocates that possess the medical knowledge and fiduciary responsibility to allow their clients to decrease their personal costs and increase their quality of life despite a broken system.

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About the Speaker
Tyler Willis is the Director of Marketing of Involver, which helps companies build audiences on social networks.
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Todd Huffman – Full Digital Reconstructions of Brains

April 5, 2010

About the Talk
The Knife Edge Scanning Microscope (KESM) is a tool that allows high-throughput digital microscopy. It can take an entire mouse brain (or human tumor) and digitize it at a sub-micron level. Originally developed for analyzing long neural paths, it’s also excellent at tracing microvasculature in a sample. This technology has been under development [...]

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David Hale – Pillbox, Identify Unknown Drugs

April 5, 2010

About the Talk
Pillbox is a tool for rapidly identifying unknown pills. It combines high-resolution images of tablets and capsules with FDA-approved appearance information (imprint, shape, color, etc.) to enable users to visually search for and identify an unknown substance.
This is a great tool for poison control, doctors, or anyone who is trying to identify drugs based [...]

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Chia Hwu – Communities in Healthcare

April 5, 2010

About the Speaker
Chia Hwu is the Community Manager for 23andme and a former organic chemist. She has worked in biotech and tech, been a volunteer coordinator and online community manager at various start-ups. You can find her on Twitter (@chiah) and at her blog, The Subtle Influence.

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Andrew Hessel – Personalized, Open Source Therapies for Breast Cancer

April 5, 2010

About the Talk
The inspiration for The Pink Army Collective is open source software successes like Apache and Linux that compete with billion-dollar software giants. We believe open source biotechnology can do the same with big pharma, and we’re creating a community of professionals to build our own drug development company.
We’re focusing on breast cancer to start, [...]

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Scott Johnson – Open Collaboration Reinventing the Healthcare Industry

April 5, 2010

About the Talk
In this BIL:PIL presentation, Scott Johnson, founder and president of the MRF, describes the high costs of the traditional medical research system (how it hurts individuals with chronic diseases through loss of productive years, loss of years in life, pain, cost to families) as well as the financial costs of the system.
Johnson then [...]

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