The future of science could be in your gut. Here’s why
The human microbiome has been the topic of thousands of research studies in the past two decades. Rapid developments in laboratory techniques and bioinformatics have brought down the cost...
Dr. Jessica Richman, PhD is co-founder and CEO of uBiome, which uses big data to understand tiny organisms. uBiome has filed over 100 patents on its technology with Dr. Richman as a co-inventor, and has launched the world's first sequencing-based clinical microbiome testing. uBiome has raised over $40M from Y Combinator, Andreesen Horowitz, 8VC, and other leading investors.
Dr. Richman studied computer science and economics at Stanford University, and then received a fellowship to Oxford, where she received her Masters and PhD and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, NPR, and dozens of other media outlets.
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