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Marie Onakomaiya is Chief Scientific Officer at Datacubed Health - company which improves remote engagement of patients in clinical studies employing the most recent advancements in behavioral science.  Marie has an inspiring story of consecutive career steps and choices, which always led her to the place she wanted to be. In this conversation we also talked about the interaction of chronic alcohol consumption and anabolic steroids. We touched upon how one can treat PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) using virtual reality technologies. And what is the best way to build your own professional network. I hope you enjoy this conversation as I did!

In this episode my guest is Joseph Mocanu who is an active venture capitalist, investing globally in seed stage healthcare technology startups relevant to emerging markets.  In this conversation you will hear about Joseph's career path from PhD degree in life sciences to a founder of Verge Capital Management investment fund and many more other interesting things about investing in healthcare field.

In this episode I talk to Karlijn Doorn PhD, who is a Director Operations at myTomorrows, which is a digital platform that links patients facing unmet medical needs to the treatments in the development. In this conversation we talk about Karlijn's career path that spans her PhD years, teaching at University of Amsterdam and her journey at myTomorrows. We also discuss what is an early access and how myTomorrows excels at the inter-phase of patients, healthcare professionals and pharma simultaneously.

In this episode I talk to co-founders of Brazen Bio - Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD and Brent Witgen, PhD.  Brazen Bio is an incubator for early stage biotech startups in Los Angeles with fully-funded 12-week fellowship for rising bioentrepreneurs. Here we discuss why it is difficult to start a biotech company and how Brazen Bio helps to overcome this hurdle. If you have a great idea and some proof of concept feel free to apply at https://www.brazen.bio/, the application period is open! 

In this episode I talk to Dr. Torsten Schröder - co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Perfood, company, which creates digital therapeutic solutions for a personalized nutrition.  In this conversation we discuss what is digital therapeutics and how one can use the data to improve the health by changing the diet. We will also talk about how knowing the blood glucose levels can help with weight control and the migraines.

In this episode I talk Chris Richter, a senior data scientist at Kaia Health. Chris has a solid background in biomechanics but at some point he decided to take a leap from academia to the business world. In this conversation we are going to discuss what is motion capture and how it can be used to help people with back pain. In addition, will speak about what are the main challenges of being a data scientist in industry, how to start doing jogging properly and why a data scientist should learn to use indexing in the code.

My guest today is Konstanze Olschewski, CEO of AlphaAnalytics, company which helps businesses to make data-driven decision for better outcomes. AlphaAnalytics is helping other companies to translate data analysis into actionable business strategies. In this episode Konstanze will share how to start a start up company from PhD project and what is awaiting for us in the future of data analysis world.