I interviewed with her. Glad I didn't take the job. She started a biomedical company based on the notion that she could diagnose most maladies with a simple blood test. We were working on a similar, but different sort of thing.
She had the reputation as a brilliant rising star in the field, fresh out of Stanford with a killer business plan. Pity it killed the angels who funded her. Currently on trial for financial fraud and generally being a bad person who poisoned a few princes on Sand Hill Road.
could diagnose most maladies with a simple blood test.
Theoretically you could replace destructive tests with nondestructive ones and do every blood test on a single sample. That's at least possible.
The real snake oil was the tiny sample. Some conditions have markers so small they may not reliably even be present in a tiny sample. If you have a false negative of 5% for these conditions in a standard sample and you take 1/100th the blood you could have a 90% false negative rate or worse.
Yes, is why I did't take the job. Ended up working at a failed amorphous silicon solar plant instead. We got the first automated line done and were looking for 300m to build 30 lines in Sacramento when Bush screwed the GM bondholders and all commercial funding dried up as a result. Bad times. Most of those folks ended up at Solaris, another notorious money sink. I passed and sat in the woods for a while.
I retired to Florida to support my father in his decline. Best 8 years of my life. Living on family ranch property with sister and BIL. My name doxes me sufficiently for anyone with a sufficiently developed vocabulary and imagination and I am old enough to not care.
I interviewed with her. Glad I didn't take the job. She started a biomedical company based on the notion that she could diagnose most maladies with a simple blood test. We were working on a similar, but different sort of thing.
She had the reputation as a brilliant rising star in the field, fresh out of Stanford with a killer business plan. Pity it killed the angels who funded her. Currently on trial for financial fraud and generally being a bad person who poisoned a few princes on Sand Hill Road.
Theoretically you could replace destructive tests with nondestructive ones and do every blood test on a single sample. That's at least possible.
The real snake oil was the tiny sample. Some conditions have markers so small they may not reliably even be present in a tiny sample. If you have a false negative of 5% for these conditions in a standard sample and you take 1/100th the blood you could have a 90% false negative rate or worse.
Yes, is why I did't take the job. Ended up working at a failed amorphous silicon solar plant instead. We got the first automated line done and were looking for 300m to build 30 lines in Sacramento when Bush screwed the GM bondholders and all commercial funding dried up as a result. Bad times. Most of those folks ended up at Solaris, another notorious money sink. I passed and sat in the woods for a while.
Did she put on that annoying and fake baritone voice the entire time?
“Muh bluh bluh bluh...”
I retired to Florida to support my father in his decline. Best 8 years of my life. Living on family ranch property with sister and BIL. My name doxes me sufficiently for anyone with a sufficiently developed vocabulary and imagination and I am old enough to not care.