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”
Author Archives: Clarissa Shen
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”
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 Interdisciplinary Respect. 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 empower everyone to better understand the most relevant changes in their bodies, so thatContinue reading “What does Diversity and Inclusion look like at Q Bio?”
Why I Joined Q Bio: Lauren Molley, Software Engineer
My ten-year-old self would not have guessed that I would be working as a software engineer to build the “physical of the future.” The palm trees outside my apartment would come as a surprise, too. I grew up near Chicago, Illinois. I went to college at the University of Michigan, where I intended to studyContinue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Lauren Molley, Software Engineer”
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: Tom Paoletti, Staff Software Engineer in Radiomics
I was looking for challenges as deep and interesting as the ones I had at Tesla, and finally found them here at Q Bio. My journey in the technical field starts across the Atlantic, in Italy. Early in my career I designed boards and developed tightly integrated software, and moved on to larger and moreContinue reading “Why I Joined Q Bio: Tom Paoletti, Staff Software Engineer in 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”