A Superstar Ex-Facebook Too Google Exec Is Trying To Upend A $6 Billion Manufacture Amongst Devices That Location Illness Sooner

From Business Insider:

• Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 brush alongside decease inspired ex-Facebook together with Google executive Mary Lou Jepsen to embark on her latest first equally the founder of a San Francisco-based startup called Openwater.
• Jepsen is working on devices that are akin to portable, miniature MRIs which could utilization everything from observing the effects of a medication inwards existent fourth dimension to monitoring a pectus cancer tumor to determine if surgical operation is necessary.
• Her startup is currently running experiments on rats inwards a lab inwards the San Francisco area, she told Business Insider.

Former Google together with Facebook executive Mary Lou Jepsen was inwards her 20s when she went abode to die. What began alongside terrible headaches developed into fatigue together with thence severe she had to purpose a wheelchair. She'd lost command of drive inwards one-half of her face. 

It took several months together with a handful of doctors earlier somebody recommended that Jepsen instruct an MRI — a physical care for that that lets clinicians peek within the brain, but that tin cost thousands of dollars together with is performed entirely on a two-ton auto inwards a exceptional room, frequently at a hospital. The pricey devices purpose radio waves together with potent magnets to utilization pictures of organs together with structures within the body. 

Thanks to Jepsen's MRI, she was diagnosed alongside a deadly encephalon tumor merely inwards fourth dimension to salve her life.

Jepsen's brush alongside decease drove her to utilization a startup called Openwater. 

Its mission is to brand portable, miniature imaging machines that everyone tin afford — machines that she dreams volition ane hateful solar daytime harbor the ability to utilization everything from give away tumors inwards whatsoever organ to allow for brain-to-brain communication. If it works, her applied scientific discipline could disrupt the roughly $6 billion annual MRI market. ...MORE