Silicon Valley Joins the Drug and Device Discovery Party

Sean Parker Kobe Bryant Every year the Milken Global Conference pulls together an amazing cadre of people for discussions of a myriad of topics, from politics to energy to healthcare to technology and entertainment. There are few places where one can simultaneously sit in the green room with Vicente Fox, Sean Parker and Kobe Bryant, but this was the place to be if you like to be the least famous person in a room. FYI, of the four of us, I am the only one without my own Wikipedia page. And I was in that room because I was fortunate enough to be asked to participate in a panel at the program called: The Search for Cures Leads to Silicon Valley. I was paired with a really interesting group for the panel, including Lindy Fishburne, executive director of, Breakout Labs and senior vice president of investments at the Thiel Foundation;, , Linda Avey, Co-Founder, Curious, Inc.and Co-Founder, 23andMe; Noah Craft, Co-Founder and CEO, Science 37; Lloyd Minor, Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine and Asha Nayak, Chief Medical Officer, Intel Corp. I know, no sports figures, international presidents or Facebook founders, but wow – a pretty august group where I got to stand out for my considerable lack of initials after my name. The description for the panel was this: “The tech titans of Silicon Valley are joining the search for cures. Leading companies such as Google, Apple and Intel are helping refine methods for collecting and analyzing of vast amounts of medical ...
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