Why Q Bio is not an Elective Whole-Body MRI Company
This blog post was written as an unedited response to Zara Stone’s inquiry about Q Bio for her article in The (mis)Information We’ve never thought of ourselves as just an elective whole-body MRI company. We believe that using single modalities to comprehensively assess health risk and disease in the human body is primitive and errorContinue reading “Why Q Bio is not an Elective Whole-Body MRI Company”
Gemini Beta Announcement
We shared our vision with you at the end of September and promised that our new interactive Platform – Gemini – would be available in Q1 of this year. That day has finally come! This week we will be rolling out the Gemini Beta Dashboard. Gemini is the First HIPAA Compliant Comprehensive Clinical Digital Twin.Continue reading “Gemini Beta Announcement”
Why I Joined Q Bio: Robbie Ostrow, Head of Platform
I’ll admit that I was dubious when Q Bio first contacted me. Healthcare companies promising to change the world are ubiquitous, but rarely do I find one with a convincing story about how they will. On the other hand, I was intrigued. I like to direct my energy toward hard problems and big bets thatContinue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Robbie Ostrow, Head of Platform”
Tell Us It’s Impossible: Resilience as a Q Bio value
“Tell us it’s impossible”… That’s one of the core values here at Q Bio. It originally came from the challenges we heard when we pitched the company to outside investors and partners in the early days – the vision for the company and what we are building sounded straight from science fiction. Build a workingContinue reading “Tell Us It’s Impossible: Resilience as a Q Bio value”
Major Q Exam Update
Dear Q Bionauts, I wanted to thank all of you for being early adopters and share a little about what we have been up to for the past five years and what our larger ambitions look like. I realize from the outside looking in that what we are doing looks mostly like an executive physicalContinue reading “Major Q Exam Update”
Our Perspective on the Responsible Use of AI and ML in Medical Imaging
We had the opportunity earlier this Spring to share our technical perspectives as input into the development of the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan being developed with the leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Here is what we shared in our letter and we always welcomeContinue reading “Our Perspective on the Responsible Use of AI and ML in Medical Imaging”
Why I Joined Q Bio: Sen Ma, Image Reconstruction Engineer
An interdisciplinary field of mathematics, physics, and medicine, MRI just seems to be perfectly made for me. On one hand, MRI attracts me because there are subfields where I could do research in maths, but on the other hand, I always wanted to make a difference in healthcare and I consider MRI the top levelContinue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Sen Ma, Image Reconstruction Engineer”
RBL1 Podcast: The Inspiration for a “Star Trek” Physical for Everyone
Q Bio CEO and Founder, Jeff Kaditz joined podcast host and Rebel One Ventures Founding Partner, Sergio Marrero, on the RBL1 Live podcast in July 2021, in which he discusses the inspiration behind Q Bio — a “Star Trek” executive physical that provides everyone a clinical, whole-body Digital Twin — and how it can helpContinue reading “RBL1 Podcast: The Inspiration for a “Star Trek” Physical for Everyone”
A Positive Feedback Loop for Humanity
Creating a world where every generation is healthier than the last and treatable diseases no longer take lives. This post originally was published on Medium on November 1, 2016. This year marks 200 years since French physician René Laennec invented the stethoscope, one of the more recent pieces of technology to be incorporated into theContinue reading “A Positive Feedback Loop for Humanity”
Why I Joined Q Bio: Cindy Wewengkang, Senior FPGA Engineer
I’ve always found working with my hands exciting and enjoyed creating cool stuff, finding quick ways to prototype, and building custom projects with hardware. There are endless things that you can optimize, and there are many processes that, if you really want to make it fast, you have to go through the hardware. While studyingContinue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Cindy Wewengkang, Senior FPGA Engineer”
Health Tech Spotlight: Conversation on Biological Digitization & Future of Personalized Health
Q Bio CEO and Founder, Jeff Kaditz, joins co-hosts Carlo Rich and Pat Dunn on the Health Tech Spotlight podcast, where they discuss personalized health forecasting, biological digitization, the future of preventive medicine, ownership of personal health data, and more. Transcript is lightly edited for ease of reading. Carlo Rich: Hi, and welcome to theContinue reading “Health Tech Spotlight: Conversation on Biological Digitization & Future of Personalized Health”
Goodbye, COVID…antibody test!
This lede is admittedly a tease, but we can’t help feeling hopeful as vaccinations continue to roll-out and we return back to the office here at Q Bio. When we first closed down our offices and our Q Center to go into shelter-in-place on March 11, 2020, we also started researching the early clinical testsContinue reading “Goodbye, COVID…antibody test!”
How the Q Exam Saved My Life: Teresa Altvater’s story
My name is Teresa Altvater and I have been an MRI Technologist for 17 years, the last 2 working at Q Bio. I am also a breast cancer survivor. My diagnosis was in October of 2012 and was quite a shock to the system. I had dealt with many patients and friends going through someContinue reading “How the Q Exam Saved My Life: Teresa Altvater’s story”
Why I Joined Q Bio: Katerina Kotrotsou, Lead Image Processing Engineer
In the beginning of high school in Athens, Greece (my hometown), I had to decide which path I should focus on, which was easy. I had always been good at mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology — I didn’t need to study a lot, and could easily grasp the ideas. But in history and literature, IContinue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Katerina Kotrotsou, Lead Image Processing Engineer”
A Conversation: The Future of Primary Care
In this podcast recorded by Andreessen Horowitz “a16z” in June 2020, experts discuss what a new operation system for preventive health looks like. Our Founder/CEO Jeff Kaditz, joins a16z General Partner Julie Yoo, Senior Editor Hanne Tidnam, and physician entrepreneur Ivor Horn, a primary care pediatrician for more than 20 years, in a podcast conversation.Continue reading “A Conversation: The Future of Primary Care”
What does Diversity and Inclusion look like at Q Bio?
One of our core values here at Q Bio is The Team is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts. It is our specific way of putting company diversity and inclusion at the core of how we want to operate and grow. We believe that our mission — to build the first clinical, whole-body DigitalContinue reading “What does Diversity and Inclusion look like at Q Bio?”
Our Q Bio Values
Every start-up goes through many twists and turns in growing and building a new business from the ground up. Throughout, our underlying core values help steer us even if we don’t have an exact map for the mountain we are trying to scale. As a small company, we wanted to have a starting document withContinue reading “Our Q Bio Values”
Why I Joined Q Bio: Alessandro Francavilla, Computational Science Engineer
I am not into tech! I don’t own fancy and modern technological gadgets. I am not dreaming about buying the next futuristic car. I am not interested in space missions, nor do I feel excitement about the possibility of going to another planet. As a matter of fact, I am too scared to ride aContinue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Alessandro Francavilla, Computational Science Engineer”
3 Actions to Inspire Women to Take Control of their Health Equity
How to address bias in medicine against women. Or why we should take inspiration from Taylor Swift, Lizzo, and Serena Williams when it comes to health equity. This post was originally published February 4, 2020 on Thrive Global. We are sharing it on our own blog as conversations about health equity are rising. Women andContinue reading “3 Actions to Inspire Women to Take Control of their Health Equity”
Re-Opening and Our COVID-19 Response
As shared with all our members this week, we have opened our Redwood City Q Center as of this Monday, May 4. We closed over the last several weeks out of an abundance of caution and to enhance our protocol to meet the challenges of today’s new normal. As many other businesses look ahead toContinue reading “Re-Opening and Our COVID-19 Response”
Q Bio’s Jeff Kaditz on ‘body search engines’, turning health into a hard science, plus coronavirus chat
In the recent episode of Hyper Wellbeing podcast, our Founder/CEO Jeff Kaditz begins with coronavirus chat. He goes on to explain that most medical knowledge today is probably incorrect or heavily biased. That there’s almost nothing a doctor does that couldn’t have been done 200 years ago in terms of the information. He presents hisContinue reading “Q Bio’s Jeff Kaditz on ‘body search engines’, turning health into a hard science, plus coronavirus chat”
Why I Started Q Bio: Jeff Kaditz
The phrase, “the art of medicine,” has bothered me for many years. With technology already at the forefront of medical discovery, and improving everything else in our daily lives, why do people still die from treatable conditions? Why haven’t we applied the same scientific principles that have led us to understand the evolution of theContinue reading “Why I Started Q Bio: Jeff Kaditz”
Why I Joined Q Bio: Thomas Witzel, VP of Radiomics
I’m excited to share that I’ve joined Q Bio as VP of Radiomics. My journey here has been a long time coming. Even before entering college, I had decided that I wanted to focus on radiomics. I thrived on solving problems since I was a boy, but I was really bad at playing computer games.Continue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Thomas Witzel, VP of Radiomics”
Why I Joined Q Bio: Clarissa Shen, COO
I’ve jumped in to the deep end again. And it’s one of my favorite times of building and scaling a business. The early team of less than 20 have worked with the founder to prove early concept and solved some of the hardest technical product problems. Early adopters are returning as users and word ofContinue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Clarissa Shen, COO”
Personal Baselines: A Longitudinal Big Data Approach for Preventive Precision Health
We are entering a new era of data-driven health monitoring. In addition to conventional approaches, we can now determine genome sequences, collect data about thousands of molecules (RNA, protein, metabolites, lipids), perform advanced imaging, and continuously monitor physiology. Importantly, we can follow people over time, during periods of disease and health. In today’s Nature MedicineContinue reading “Personal Baselines: A Longitudinal Big Data Approach for Preventive Precision Health”