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The AWS Health Innovation Podcast showcases entrepreneurs and investors who are driving progress in healthcare and life science across the globe.

Joe Shonkwiler


    • May 20, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 33m AVG DURATION
    • 132 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from AWS Health Innovation Podcast

    #124, From Search Algorithms to Scientific Breakthroughs with Doug Selinger from Plex Research

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 21:30


    Learn how Plex Research combines PageRank-style algorithms with AI to navigate the complexity of biomedical data, transforming untapped research potential into validated drug discovery opportunities.

    #123, Decoding Immune Cell Behavior to Transform Treatment Discovery with Gregory Vladimer from Graph Therapeutics

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 19:45


    Graph Therapeutics combines AI-driven perturbation modeling with multi-omics data to develop targeted therapies for patients with complex immune-mediated diseases who currently lack effective treatment options.

    #122, Revolutionizing Heart Failure Care Through Non-Invasive Sensing with Filip Peters from Acorai

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 30:49


    Acorai is pioneering non-invasive cardiac monitoring technology that combines multiple sensors and machine learning to transform heart failure management, making critical pressure measurements accessible and continuous.

    #121, Engineering Better Drugs Through Bacterial Intelligence with Nik Sharma & Mo Alomari from BioCorteX

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 0:13


    Through their groundbreaking Carbon Mirror platform, BioCorteX is transforming pharmaceutical development by understanding how bacteria influence drug effectiveness across diverse populations.

    #120, Predicting Trial Success Before Recruitment with Orr Inbar from QuantHealth

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 39:28


    Discover how QuantHealth's simulation-based platform is revolutionizing pharmaceutical research by virtually testing clinical trial protocols, optimizing study designs, and predicting outcomes before trials begin.

    #119, Transforming Medical Device Development with Alex Condon from Galen Data

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 32:03


    Galen Data's comprehensive cloud platform empowers medical device companies to centralize data, maintain compliance, and accelerate time-to-market.

    #118, Making Tomorrow's Treatments Available Today with Michel van Harten MD, from myTomorrows

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2025 25:49


    myTomorrows combines AI with healthcare expertise to solve the complex challenge of matching patients to clinical trials, making advanced treatment options more accessible worldwide.

    #117, Breaking Down Healthcare Data Silos with Mika Newton from xCures

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 40:26


    xCures revolutionizes healthcare data management by using artificial intelligence to unlock, organize, and analyze patient information trapped in disconnected systems, improving care.

    #116, Programming Biology to Revolutionize Drug Discovery with Tharindi Hapuarachchi from Generate:Biomedicines

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 31:57


    Generate:Biomedicines is pioneering generative biology at the intersection of AI and medicine, creating breakthrough therapeutics by designing and testing millions of proteins simultaneously.

    #115, Improving Care One Heartbeat at a Time with Dr. Jim Mault, CEO and Founder of BioIntelliSense

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 37:42


    BioIntelliSense is revolutionizing remote patient monitoring through their medical-grade BioButton® wearable device, delivering continuous vital sign trending and AI-powered clinical intelligence for both hospital and home care settings.

    #114, Revolutionizing Agriculture One Seed at a Time with Ponsi Trivisvavet from Inari Agriculture

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 28:18


    Inari Agriculture is working to solve the critical issues of food security and sustainability through AI-powered predictive design and advanced multiplex gene editing, creating seeds that maximize yield while minimizing environmental impact.

    #113, Bridging the Gap Between Medical Knowledge and Practice with Rob Brisk from Eolas Medical

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 45:13


    Eolas Medical's digital platform organizes the world's medical information, making healthcare simpler, safer, and smarter. Discover how they're revolutionizing point-of-care access to critical medical knowledge for over 200,000 healthcare providers.

    #112, Defeating the Diseases of Aging with Daniel Ives from Shift Bioscience

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024 31:46


    Shift Bioscience is a biotech company focused on developing cell rejuvenation therapies to defeat the diseases of aging through novel gene-based interventions.

    #111, Breathing New Life into Metabolic Health with Daniel Tal Mor from Lumen

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2024 27:42


    Lumen's cutting-edge technology measures metabolism in real-time through breath analysis. Discover how this innovative health tool is empowering users with personalized insights and transforming the approach to metabolic wellness.

    #110, Using AI to Give The Gift of Independence to Aging Adults with Nevo Elmalem from Sensi.ai

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2024 33:28


    Sensi.AI's 24/7 Care Copilot provides home care businesses a 360-degree understanding of a senior's physical, emotional, and cognitive needs, empowering them to age safely in place.

    #109, Transforming Real-World Data into Actionable Clinical Evidence with Dr. Brigham Hyde from Atropos Health

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 43:05


    Atropos Health is reshaping healthcare by providing on-demand evidence from real-world data, elevating clinical outcomes and accelerating research. Learn how their AI-powered platform is closing critical evidence gaps and revolutionizing medical decision-making.

    #108, Accelerating Scientific Breakthroughs Through Collaborative R&D with Bogdan Knezevic from Kaleidoscope Bio

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 33:20


    Discover how Kaleidoscope Bio's innovative software is reshaping R&D processes by seamlessly organizing projects, tracking key decisions, and managing experimental data across various tools and teams in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors.

    #107, Democratizing Musculoskeletal Treatment with Virtual Care, with Vijay Yanamadala from Sword Health

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 38:33


    Sword Health's AI-powered platform offers remote monitoring, virtual PT sessions, behavioral health support, and personalized care plans for treating chronic pain.

    #106, Precision Medicine for Neurodegenerative Diseases, with Brian Pepin from Rune Labs

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 25:28


    Rune Labs leverages real-world data and digital biomarkers to revolutionize the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, enabling personalized and data-driven care.

    #105, Reducing Healthcare's $1 Trillion Admin Burden with AI, Abdel Mahmoud, Anterior

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2024 42:34


    Anterior is transforming healthcare with AI that understands clinical jargon, delivering value by automating administrative tasks like prior authorization that cost over $1 trillion annually.

    #104, Decoding the Immune System with AI, Adam Laing from IMU Biosciences

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 29:45


    Leveraging an AI-powered immune profiling platform, IMU Biosciences creates unprecedented insights into health and disease by measuring and analyzing the immune system at an unparalleled scale and resolution.

    #103, Revolutionizing Surgery with Physical AI, Gabriel Jones from Proprio

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 41:59


    Proprio's proprietary platform provides surgeons with insightful, responsive information in the operating room, aiming to significantly improve patient outcomes and surgeon wellbeing by enhancing surgical performance and precision.

    #102, Decoding Human Biology with Single-Cell Insights, with Lindsay Edwards from Relation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2024 41:03


    Relation leverages single-cell multi-omics, functional assays, and machine learning to better characterize diseases and develop transformational medicines.

    #101, Improving Lab Workflows with Robotics and AI, Mostafa ElSayed of Automata

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2024 39:28


    Automata's LINQ platform integrates lab instruments, robotics, and cloud software to streamline scientific workflows and accelerate drug discovery research.

    #100, Enabling Personalized Medicine with Virtual Biopsies, Rajarshi Banerjee from Perspectum

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 35:49


    Perspectum enables non-invasive "virtual biopsies" that provide safer, more accessible disease monitoring for conditions like liver disease, diabetes, and cancer.

    #99, Soothing Cries & Saving Lives with Innovative Baby Tech, Dr. Harvey Karp from Happiest Baby

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2024 31:17


    Happiest Baby's SNOO Smart Sleeper is an FDA-approved cradle that tracks baby's sleep, sends alerts, and automatically soothes with womb-like motions.

    #98, Advancing Adaptive Clinical Trials with Causal ML, with Raviv Pryluk from PhaseV

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 37:50


    PhaseV is pioneering the use of reinforcement learning, causal ML, and adaptive trial design to optimize resource utilization and time efficiency in drug development.

    #97, Preventing Adverse Drug Events at Scale, with Avishai Ben-Tovim from MDI Health

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2024 36:11


    MDI Health has developed an innovative AI solution used by payers and value-based providers to optimize medication management, identify high-risk patients, and reduce overall healthcare expenditure.

    #96, Unlocking Precision Health with Oculomics, with Carlos Ciller from Ikerian

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2024 42:01


    Ikerian is pioneering the use of non-invasive retinal imaging and AI to identify biomarkers that can predict disease progression and treatment response.

    #95, Boosting Pathologist Productivity with AI, with Joseph (Yossi) Mossel from Ibex AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2024 34:45


    Ibex AI's Galen™ platform demonstrated outstanding outcomes in clinical studies and helps pathologists and providers reduce diagnostic errors, implement real-time quality control, reduce diagnosis time and boost productivity.

    #94, Decoding Infant Cries to Enable Timely Interventions with Roberto Iannone from Zoundream

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 35:55


    Zoundream's solution uses AI to analyze infant cries and sounds in real-time, pinpointing reasons such as hunger or tiredness with remarkable accuracy, and detecting early signs of conditions like autism.

    #93, Harnessing Data to Scale Innovations, Part Five of the Health Innovation Compilation Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024 59:42


    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.

    #92, Uplifting the Clinician & Patient Experience, Part Four of the Health Innovation Compilation Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2024 62:26


    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.

    #91, Transforming Clinical Trials, Part Three of the Health Innovation Compilation Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2024 47:33


    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.

    #90, Innovations in Biomarker & Diagnostic Development, Part Two of the Health Innovation Compilation Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2024 52:58


    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.

    #89, Accelerating Drug R&D, Part One of the Health Innovation Compilation Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 55:13


    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.

    #88, Reconciling Conflicting Data for Coherent Patient Journeys, with Karim Galil from Mendel

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 32:06


    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.

    #87, Modeling Integrated Human Physiology with Microfluidics with Andrei Georgescu from Vivodyne

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2024 32:22


    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.

    #86, Unleashing AI's Power to Design Drugs with Medicinal Chemistry, Yann Gaston-Mathé from Iktos

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2024 40:05


    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.

    #85, Unlocking the Secrets of Cells with AI, Jonathan Baptista from DeepLife

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 30:48


    DeepLife uses machine learning to curate and annotate single-cell RNA-seq datasets, enabling downstream bioinformatics analysis and target identification.

    #84, Empowering Scientists with Voice-Assisted Workflows with Steve Soccorso-McCoy from LabVoice

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 30:50


    LabVoice develops a hands-free voice assistant that provides a common human-lab interaction for scientists, enabling voice-assisted workflows and hands-free access to lab software and data.

    #83, Designing Optimal Drug Molecules from Scratch with Dave Longo from Ordaōs

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2024 32:17


    Ordaōs, a human-enabled machine-driven drug design company leveraging GenAI and AI/ML to design and build mini proteins as therapeutics for biomedical research and drug discovery.

    #82, Closing Care Gaps with Predictive Analytics, Aneesh Chopra from CareJourney and Mirza Baig from AWS

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2024 42:24


    CareJourney provides healthcare analytics solutions that leverage claims data to enable value-based care delivery organizations, hospitals, health plans, and life sciences companies to improve care quality and reduce costs.

    #81, Thinking Big to Improve Liver Disease Outcomes, Quin Wills from Ochre Bio

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024 27:30


    Quin Wills, Co-Founder & CSO of Ochre Bio, joins us to discuss their use of deep analysis of liver genetics and precision RNA design to develop new therapies for liver diseases like hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer.

    #80, Closing the Loop on Hospital Drug Supply Chains, Kevin MacDonald of Bluesight

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2024 39:06


    Bluesight's software platform connects data across medication manufacturing, ordering, inventory, dispensing and administration to help hospital pharmacies reduce costs, ensure compliance and improve safety. Kevin shares how this unprecedented visibility enables customers to reduce waste, ensure compliance and detect drug diversion.

    #79, Predicting Future Health Events With AI with Eric Chung from Prospection

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2024 25:51


    Prospection is a healthcare analytics company that converts data into actionable insights by applying machine learning to hundreds of millions of patient histories to predict future health events years in advance.

    #78, Uncovering New Treatments For Severe Mental Illness with David Newton from Akrivia Health

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2024 40:24


    Akrivia Health provides research data, clinical trial optimization, and molecular characterization for mental health and dementia. We speak with David Newton, COO & Co-Founder of Akrivia Health, about how they use AI to process free text notes into structured data, all while safeguarding patient privacy.

    #77, The App Store for Healthcare with Oron Afek from Vim

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 31:02


    Vim is building an ecosystem to connect healthcare applications and workflows. Co-founder and CEO Oron Afek shares the story behind Vim's evolution into a healthcare "app store" now reaching over 20 million patients.

    #76, Supercharging BioTech's Digital Transformation with Guru Singh of Scispot

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2024 34:10


    Scispot offers a no-code workflow automation platform for BioTechs to digitize and automate their workflows. The company's platform automates mundane administrative tasks, centralizes company-wide data, templatizes routine research and collaborative documentation, enabling companies to make processes more efficient and reproducible.

    #75, Top 10 Episodes of All Time, Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2024 49:34


    Discover the future of healthcare with DeepScribe's AI scribe, Cohere Health's pre-auth solutions, Zus Health's interoperability platform, Bayesian Health's AI clinical data platform, and Iterative Scope's AI GI tools on Part 2 of our Top 10 Episodes of all time countdown.

    #74, Top 10 Episodes of All Time, Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2024 44:09


    Discover the future of healthcare with Artera's communication solutions, Insitro's AI in drug discovery, Canvas Medical's EMR technology, Forward Health's primary care advancements, and Us2.AI's advanced echocardiography tools in Part 1 of our Top 10 Episodes of all time countdown.

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