AWS Health Innovation Podcast
Amazon Web Services showcases startups that are advancing healthcare & life science by leveraging cloud computing technology.
#93, Harnessing Data to Scale Innovations, Part Five of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Featuring Mendel, Akrivia Health, Epistemix, Ovation, and Evidation Health, this episode explores how innovative companies are leveraging real-world data and AI to drive precision medicine, uncover new treatments, and improve population health outcomes.
July 8, 2024
#92, Uplifting the Clinician & Patient Experience, Part Four of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Explore how CareJourney, Aidoc, Forward, CLEW, and Thyme Care leverage cutting-edge technologies to optimize clinician and patient experiences, driving better outcomes and transforming healthcare delivery.
June 26, 2024
#91, Transforming Clinical Trials, Part Three of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Featuring Deep6 AI, Lokavant, and Science 37, this episode explores how these companies are leveraging AI, data analytics, and decentralized models to revolutionize clinical trial recruitment, operations, and patient accessibility.
June 19, 2024
#90, Innovations in Biomarker & Diagnostic Development, Part Two of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Explore how Us2.AI, Truvian Health, and Sparta Science leverage AI, cloud, and novel biological insights to revolutionize diagnostics and biomarker discovery, enabling accessible and precise care pathways.
June 12, 2024
#89, Accelerating Drug R&D, Part One of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Dive into the groundbreaking approaches of companies like VivoDyne, Seer, Ordaos, Insilico Medicine, and Alchemab, who are pushing boundaries in drug R&D through microfluidic bioengineering, proteome mapping, AI-driven drug design, and resilient antibody discovery.
June 5, 2024
#88, Reconciling Conflicting Data for Coherent Patient Journeys, with Karim Galil from Mendel
Mendel enables life sciences to index patient journeys at scale and learn from them at the speed of real-time dialogues. The journey started in 2017 from a two-person office in Silicon Valley with commitment to building novel technology and not to be another “Boy Who Cried Wolf” AI company. To do that, we have invested 4 years and millions of dollars in R&D before launching our first model in 2020. Today, Mendel is the most-funded clinical NLP startup with a team of 100+ members, blue chip investors, and some of the world’s leading life sciences companies as customers.
May 21, 2024
#87, Modeling Integrated Human Physiology with Microfluidics with Andrei Georgescu from Vivodyne
Vivodyne, a biotech firm employing bottom-up self-assembly principles to grow complex tissues that better mimic human physiology, enabling the study of systemic effects like immune responses and linking multiple tissue systems.
May 14, 2024
#86, Unleashing AI’s Power to Design Drugs with Medicinal Chemistry, Yann Gaston-Mathé from Iktos
Iktos is an innovative company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence solutions applied to chemical research and new drug design, enabling major productivity gains in upstream pharmaceutical R&D.
May 7, 2024
AWS Health Innovation Podcast
The AWS Health Innovation Podcast is the first and only Amazon/AWS podcast featuring healthcare and life science startups and investors. We showcase innovative teams and people, providing a view into how they operate and drive progress. Our goal is to tell the stories behind health innovators, not just talk about technology. The intended audience are health innovators, investors and employees from healthcare & life sciences startups.
Host
Alex Merwin
Alex Merwin is an operations executive with over ten years of experience building and scaling high-performance teams at startups and global tech companies. He is passionate about helping healthcare innovators apply digital technologies to make their solutions more customer-centric, cost-efficient, and effective. He studied at the University of Colorado Boulder, earning a Bachelors in Marketing with an International Business Certificate. He also attended executive development courses at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He works at Amazon Web Services as Head of Growth for their Healthcare & Life Sciences Startups business.
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