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.
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 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 >
Startup’s AI Platform Allows Contact-Free Hospital Interactions
Hands-free phone calls and touchless soap dispensers have been the norm for years. Next up, contact-free hospitals. San Francisco-based startup Ouva has created a hospital intelligence platform that monitors patient… Read article >
Pixel Perfect: V7 Labs Automates Image Annotation for Deep Learning Models
Cells under a microscope, grapes on a vine and species in a forest are just a few of the things that AI can identify using the image annotation platform created… Read article >