About Us
Who We Are
We're a small collective of individuals from diverse fields, focused on adapting existing technologies to challenge the structurally unjust social arrangements that leverage clinical care for learning and discovery.
Our Mission is to empower patients as owners of their biosamples and as co-investigators in a democratized biomedical research enterprise. We are building incentives and infrastructure that serve the individual, rather than institutions, to unlock access to value, enable collaboration, and accelerate precision medicine as an equitable standard of care.
Our team
Marielle Gross
Founder & CEO
Bioethics & OB/GYN @Pitt/UPMC
Adrian V. Lee
Chief Scientific Officer
Director, Institute for Precision Medicine at Pitt/UPMC
Jeff Kahn
Chief Ethics & Governance Officer
Director, Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkings
Robert C. Miller
Chief Medical Officer
Director, VP & Radiation Oncology clinical trials at Mayo
William Sanchez
Technology Commercialization Lead
Full Stack Software Engineer / Blockchain Developer
Advocacy & Research
Mario Macis
Behavioral Economics at Johns Hopkins
Patient survey design & analysis
Emmie Hood
Labor Ethics & Policy at Johns Hopkins
Stakeholder Engagement & Incentives
Balaji Palanisamy
Co-Inventor at Pitt
Blockchain Systems & Privacy-Aware Computing
Funded Researchers
Roberto Bellido
Blockchain & Tokenomics @Pitt
Product Research & Software Development
Diana Mendoza-Cervantes
Clinicial Ethics at Pitt
Qualitative Research & Patient Advocacy
Sneha Vaidhyam
Human computer interface design @Pitt