AWS Health Innovation Podcast

#118, Making Tomorrow’s Treatments Available Today with Michel van Harten MD, from myTomorrows

myTomorrows combines AI with healthcare expertise to solve the complex challenge of matching patients to clinical trials, making advanced treatment options more accessible worldwide.

March 11, 2025

#117, Breaking Down Healthcare Data Silos with Mika Newton from xCures

xCures revolutionizes healthcare data management by using artificial intelligence to unlock, organize, and analyze patient information trapped in disconnected systems, improving care.

March 4, 2025

#116, Programming Biology to Revolutionize Drug Discovery with Tharindi Hapuarachchi from Generate:Biomedicines

Generate:Biomedicines is pioneering generative biology at the intersection of AI and medicine, creating breakthrough therapeutics by designing and testing millions of proteins simultaneously.

February 25, 2025

#115, Improving Care One Heartbeat at a Time with Dr. Jim Mault, CEO and Founder of BioIntelliSense

BioIntelliSense is revolutionizing remote patient monitoring through their medical-grade BioButton® wearable device, delivering continuous vital sign trending and AI-powered clinical intelligence for both hospital and home care settings.

February 5, 2025

#114, Revolutionizing Agriculture One Seed at a Time with Ponsi Trivisvavet from Inari Agriculture

Inari Agriculture is working to solve the critical issues of food security and sustainability through AI-powered predictive design and advanced multiplex gene editing, creating seeds that maximize yield while minimizing environmental impact.

January 28, 2025

#113, Bridging the Gap Between Medical Knowledge and Practice with Rob Brisk from Eolas Medical

Eolas Medical's digital platform organizes the world's medical information, making healthcare simpler, safer, and smarter. Discover how they're revolutionizing point-of-care access to critical medical knowledge for over 200,000 healthcare providers.

January 21, 2025

#112, Defeating the Diseases of Aging with Daniel Ives from Shift Bioscience

Shift Bioscience is a biotech company focused on developing cell rejuvenation therapies to defeat the diseases of aging through novel gene-based interventions.

December 17, 2024

#111, Breathing New Life into Metabolic Health with Daniel Tal Mor from Lumen

Lumen's cutting-edge technology measures metabolism in real-time through breath analysis. Discover how this innovative health tool is empowering users with personalized insights and transforming the approach to metabolic wellness.

December 10, 2024

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AWS Health Innovation Podcast

The AWS Health Innovation Podcast is the first and only Amazon/AWS podcast featuring healthcare and life science startups and investors. We showcase innovative teams and people, providing a view into how they operate and drive progress. Our goal is to tell the stories behind health innovators, not just talk about technology. The intended audience are health innovators, investors and employees from healthcare & life sciences startups.

Host

Alex Merwin

Alex Merwin is an operations executive with over ten years of experience building and scaling high-performance teams at startups and global tech companies. He is passionate about helping healthcare innovators apply digital technologies to make their solutions more customer-centric, cost-efficient, and effective. He studied at the University of Colorado Boulder, earning a Bachelors in Marketing with an International Business Certificate. He also attended executive development courses at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He works at Amazon Web Services as Head of Growth for their Healthcare & Life Sciences Startups business.