Renee Yao

Renee Yao (she/her) leads global healthcare AI startups at NVIDIA, managing more than 1,300 healthcare startups in the digital health, medical instrument, medical imaging, genomics, and drug discovery segments. Previous to this role, she was a senior product manager and product marketing manager for AI systems, building bundle solutions and reference architectures for the self-driving car, telecom, and big data analytics industries. Yao graduated from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley with a focus in economics and IT. She was named one of the top 50 B2B product marketers to watch. In her free time, she enjoys competitive ballroom dancing, reading, and traveling.

NVIDIA Works With Deloitte to Deploy Digital AI Agents for Healthcare

Editor’s note: The name of NIM Agent Blueprints was changed to NVIDIA Blueprints in October 2024. All references to the name have been updated in this blog. Ahead of a visit… Read Article

computer display with invenio imaging pathology interface

The Fastest Path: Healthcare Startup Uses AI to Analyze Cancer Cells in the Operating Room

Medical-device company Invenio Imaging is developing technology that enables surgeons to evaluate tissue biopsies in the operating room, immediately after samples are collected — providing in just three minutes AI-accelerated… Read Article

AI for drug discovery for pulmonary fibrosis

Quicker Cures: How Insilico Medicine Uses Generative AI to Accelerate Drug Discovery

While generative AI is a relatively new household term, drug discovery company Insilico Medicine has been using it for years to develop new therapies for debilitating diseases. The company’s early… Read Article

image of a medical professional viewing a radiology scan with AI analysis by VinBrain

Vietnam’s VinBrain Deploys Healthcare AI Models to 100+ Hospitals

Doctors rarely make diagnoses based on a single factor — they look at a mix of data types, such as a patient’s symptoms, laboratory and radiology reports, and medical history…. Read Article

Lunit employees drawing representation of their AI model

Shifting Into High Gear: Lunit, Maker of FDA-Cleared AI for Cancer Analysis, Goes Public in Seoul

South Korean startup Lunit, developer of two FDA-cleared AI models for healthcare, went public this week on the country’s Kosdaq stock market. The move marks the maturity of the Seoul-based… Read Article

Peptone is developing AI-driven protein engineering solutions

NVIDIA Invites Healthcare Startup Submissions to Access UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

It takes major computing power to tackle major projects in digital biology — and that’s why we’re connecting pioneering healthcare startups with the U.K.’s most powerful supercomputer, Cambridge-1. U.K. startups… Read Article

NVIDIA Inception Alliance for Healthcare

NVIDIA Launches Inception Alliance with GE Healthcare and Nuance to Accelerate Medical Imaging AI Startups

Just over 125 years ago, on Nov. 8, 1895, the world’s first X-ray image was captured. It was a breakthrough that set the stage for the modern medical imaging industry…. Read Article

A Binding Decision: Startup Uses Microscopy Breakthrough to Speed Creation of COVID-19 Vaccines

In the global race to tame the spread of COVID-19, scientific researchers and pharmaceutical companies first must understand the virus’s protein structure. Doing so requires building detailed 3D models of… Read Article

NVIDIA Inception Startups Advancing HLTH with AI

Like never before, healthcare is in the spotlight in 2020 due to COVID-19 and the shifts that doctors and hospitals had to make for screening, virtual appointments and stringent safety… Read Article