First in Human
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This Robot Draws Your Blood With a Needle. Patients Love It.
Toon Overbeeke's friend had a father going through chemotherapy — and every hospital visit meant failed attempt after failed attempt to draw his blood, because chemo had damaged his veins. The…
This CEO Wants to Reset Your Heart Rhythm with Jello
Patients with implantable cardiac defibrillators live with a brutal tradeoff: the device that saves their life can also shock them without warning — so hard they describe it as getting kicked by a…
500 Amputations a Day. Meet Three Founders Fighting to Stop It.
If a foot wound isn't healing, the clock is already ticking. Every day in the United States alone, 500 people lose a limb to peripheral vascular disease - and 40% of them were never even diagnosed…
This Surgeon Drew City Plans as a Kid. Now He Uses AI to Redesign Healthcare.
In fifth grade, while other kids were drawing cars and airplanes, Andrew Ibrahim was flipping over his homework to sketch cities - mapping where the hospital should go, how far the school should be…
Serial Health Tech Builder on Founder Skills That Actually Matter — From Artificial Wombs to Injectors
When you're building something new in healthcare, the instinct is to lock down requirements and ship fast. Eric Sugalski has spent his career proving why that's a mistake. Eric's journey started with…
Office Hours: Former FDA Reviewer on the Mistakes Founders Keep Making
A single FDA class at Stanford changed Allison Komiyama's life. She was a neuroscience PhD student who thought she'd end up in academia. Then she discovered regulatory science and never looked…
This CEO Is Helping Lung Cancer Patients Told to "Just Wait"
Finding a lung nodule early is supposed to be good news. But for millions of patients, it means something terrifying: "We see something. We don't know what it is. Come back in six months." Joanna…
The CEO Whose Company is Eliminating the Need for Skin Biopsies
What if diagnosing skin lesions didn’t require a scalpel — or even a biopsy at all? In this episode of First in Human, I sit down with Gabriel Sanchez, MIT-trained engineer, Stanford PhD, and founder…
Doctors Said "Just Live With It." Her Team Built a $1B Startup Instead
Menopause isn’t gentle. For many women, it’s a physiological shockwave — flipping sleep, mood, metabolism, cognition, sexual health, and long-term disease risk all at once. And all too often, the…
Why This CEO Is Building an EKG for the Gut - Literally
You might be surprised to learn that a particle physicist — someone who knows how to work with massive particle accelerators slamming atoms together — is building a company focused on a sticker that…
3 Startups, 1 Rule: Building Companies from the ICU's Clues
What does it really take to decide what’s worth building in healthcare? In this episode of First in Human, I sit down with Dr. Ryan Van Wert, ICU physician and serial health tech founder, to unpack…
Nothing in the OR Was Built For His Patient.
It’s one thing to talk about innovation. It’s another to realize, mid-surgery, that nothing in the room was designed for your patient.In this episode of First in Human, I sit down with Dr. James…
$150M Raised. A Blood Test Reshaping Sepsis Care.
Sepsis is one of medicine’s most dangerous guessing games. Patients arrive with vague symptoms. Clinicians rely on instinct. And too often, the ones who look “okay” are the ones who crash. In this…
Doctors Laughed at His Prototype. Now Millions Use It.
What does it take to reinvent one of the most iconic tools in medicine? In this episode of First in Human, I sit down with Connor Landgraf, co-founder and CEO of Eko Health, to trace the unlikely…
She Replaced an $80,000 Machine With a High-Tech Sticker
How do you fight a disease that hides until it’s almost too late? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Maria Artunduaga, founder of Samay, whose work began with a moment she still remembers clearly:…
Premature Babies Were Being Protected With Literal Tape. This CEO Saw a Better Way.
An innovator’s first step into the clinical environment - in this case, an ICU built for the world’s tiniest babies - can change everything. In this episode of First in Human, I sit down with Eric…
They Chose the Problem Every Medtech Company Ran From. It Paid Off.
Some problems in medicine see so many failed attempts that they start to feel untouchable. Teams learn to move on, investors grow wary, and the problem becomes its own warning label. Kate Garrett and…
Why a Serial Medtech Founder Is Betting on Bathrooms
What happens when a serial medtech founder takes on one of the most overlooked problems in public health: the simple act of finding a clean, safe place to go to the bathroom? In this episode, I sit…
How One Med Student’s Frustration Launched a Global Company
What if medical education felt less like memorization, and more like discovery?In this episode of First in Human, we sit down with Shiv Gaglani, the founder of Osmosis, to unpack the story behind how…
The Hidden Condition That Inspired a Startup
What happens when two innovators take on a condition no one talks about - but that quietly shapes how people connect? In this episode of First in Human, I sit down with Véronique Peiffer, PhD…
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