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Disrupting the pharmaceutical drug discovery process

Pharmaceuticals is an industry that is ripe for technological disruption. That is one of the main conclusions Jen Nwankwo drew from the experience she gained while doing research at large pharmaceutical companies like Novartis and Eli Lilly, and while conducting her doctoral dissertation at Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools as she earned her Ph.D. in […]

Expanding the market for cannabis products

An unexpected text from her mother nearly a decade ago set the stage for the equally unexpected turn Tahira Rehmatullah’s career would take. Tahira grew up in a traditional Pakistani family in an Ohio suburb. She attended Ohio State and had been at the Yale School of Management, working on her M.B.A, when her mother […]

Helping cannabis operators optimize cost per gram

It seems ironic that offering a product that can bring joy to people’s lives could involve so many dull, repetitive tasks. But that was one of the discoveries Stacey Hronowski made when her consulting experience brought her into contact with the business side of cannabis. She had been working at a consulting firm whose clients […]

Teaching the world, one text at a time

Texting can be used for so much more than quick check-ins with your family and friends. It can be an incredibly powerful tool to facilitate learning. Michael Ioffe, the CEO and co-founder of the text-based learning platform Arist, discovered this when he was working on his first venture, the nonprofit TILE.org. Founded by Michael when […]

Transforming surgery with mixed reality and robotics

Virtual reality isn’t just for gamers. It’s also being used to improve the quality of medical care. When Jose Amich and Raahil Sha were undergraduates at Harvard University, they became interested in examining how augmented and virtual reality applications could be used in health care. Raahil was doing research for a professor to develop computer […]

Gridless Power builds great batteries and the customers have kept coming

Gridless Power hasn’t had to spend a lot of time looking for new customers. When organizations hear about their mobile battery technology, they usually come looking for them. As the firm’s co-founder Patrick Murphy explains, the company was born out of a need to support expansion of the vineyard run by the family of his […]

Nabis has become an indispensable partner to cannabis suppliers in California

Vince Ning and his friend, Jun Sup Lee, made an important discovery when they offered to drive a delivery truck for another friend who had a cannabis brand in California. It was 2017, when the state had just legalized the sale of cannabis for recreational use, and licenses were about to go live. Vince and […]

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