Jonathan Rothberg: The Scientist-Entrepreneur

Howie and Harlan react to President Joe Biden’s declaration that the pandemic is over. Then they’re joined by Jonathan Rothberg, a Yale-trained scientist who has created new methods for sequencing DNA and founded a series of successful biotech companies.

Disclosure: Harlan Krumholz is a consultant to Tesseract, a portfolio company of 4 Catalyzer, which was founded by Jonathan Rothberg.

Links:

“Biden: ‘The pandemic is over’”

Eric Topol: “To boost or not to boost”

“An integrated semiconductor device enabling non-optical genome sequencing”

”Butterfly Network Distributes 500 Butterfly iQ+ Devices to Healthcare Workers in Kenya to Transform Maternal and Fetal Health”

”AI Estimation of Gestational Age from Blind Ultrasound Sweeps in Low-Resource Settings”

Butterfly Network

Protein Evolution

Hyperfine

”Uncovered Medical Bills after Sexual Assault”

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