Freenome

9 statements across 4 episodes · 9 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Vijay Pande · said 24 times in 10 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Vijay Pande (12), Sonal Chokshi (2), Gabriel Ott (2), Frank Chen (2), Ben Horowitz (2), Jorge Conde (1)

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Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pande: Digital health startups could be acquired by pharma or tech giants
“I could see a Pfizer buying Omada, you know, and maybe coupling with a drug or maybe not. I could see Google buying a company like Omada. I could see Freenome being bought either by a therapeutics company that wants a diagnostic, or by, let's say, a sequencing…”
Vijay Pande Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 9:31 On Machine Learning in Medicine and More
Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Pande: Freenome's test will cost about as much as a dental visit
“Freenome's test that's something that you could do once a year, you could do twice a year, it's comparable to the cost of the dentist, and something where one could catch cancer immediately, like catching a cavity at a very early stage, and it gets cured, and …”
Vijay Pande Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 12:31 On Machine Learning in Medicine and More
Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pande: Freenome's genomic ML will drive cancer cure rates to 80-100%
“So a company like Freenome will use machine learning and deep learning with genomics to be able to tell whether you have cancer early enough, such that the cure rate, success rate could be 80%, a hundred percent.”
Vijay Pande Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 2:28 On Machine Learning in Medicine and More
Jul 16, 2017 positive
Assertion Supported
Chen: Freenome is developing a cell-free DNA blood test for cancer diagnosis
“The company Freenome is working on a cancer diagnostic by reading the DNA that's free floating in your bloodstream.”
Frank Chen Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 29:28 The Promise of AI
Jan 11, 2018 bullish
Disclosure
Pande: BioAge uses machine learning on young blood to develop anti-aging therapeutics
“And so if you think about the game plan that Freenome runs for taking blood and understanding where there's cancer and what's the cancerous agents in there, what BioAge is doing is doing essentially the same thing, looking at the blood of young, using machine …”
Vijay Pande Jan 11, 2018 ▶ 22:50 When Biology Moves to Engineering
Jan 11, 2018 bullish
Assertion Supported
Pande: AI cancer detection startup Freenome achieves over 90% accuracy
“Companies like Freenome that look for the signals for cancer from blood can do considerably better. You know, 90% and plus.”
Vijay Pande Jan 11, 2018 ▶ 7:59 When Biology Moves to Engineering
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ott: Dynamic DNA testing will enable detection of any disease with immune changes
“The underlying biology should theoretically enable us to detect any diseases where there is an immune change.”
Gabriel Ott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:18 a16z Podcast | Revisiting the Gene
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Freenome detects dynamic cell-free DNA from circulating immune cells
“What we're detecting is DNA fragments that are actually coming from the immune cells that are turning over in your body.”
Gabriel Ott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:39 a16z Podcast | Revisiting the Gene
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Insight
AI diagnostics can continuously improve accuracy post-launch by learning from results
“Because we can now make a diagnostic that's fundamentally AI-based, even after we launch the test into the market, we can actually work with our partners to get results of the test that we sell back so that we can teach the artificial intelligence that it made…”
Gabriel Ott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:20 a16z Podcast | Revisiting the Gene
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