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”
Author Archives: Clarissa Shen
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”
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: Nelson Page, Engineering Director
As a kid, I loved watching Mr. Wizard and went on to study physics in my undergrad because I was fascinated by the physicists I knew. When I went to grad school, I felt the need to do something more practical, so I moved into biophotonics and conducted disease research. I came into software byContinue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Nelson Page, Engineering Director”
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”
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”
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”