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Derk Arts
Derk Arts is a Dutch physician-turned-entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Castor, a clinical-trial software company he started in 2012 after coding the first version of its Electronic Data Capture platform himself. Trained as a medical doctor and epidemiologist with a PhD, he built Castor to make clinical research more inclusive, patient-centric, and data-driven. The platform now supports thousands of trials across roughly 90 countries and was used by the World Health Organization for its Solidarity Trial. Castor has raised more than $60 million, including a $45 million Series B in 2021, and Arts is a recognized voice on decentralized trials, eConsent, and the responsible use of AI in research.
Tom Lemberg
Tom Lemberg is the Founder & CEO of Curebase, a San Francisco-based decentralized clinical trial platform that has enrolled over 60,000 patients across 60+ studies. A Harvard-trained computer scientist and molecular biologist, Lemberg built Curebase from his couch in 2017, joined Y Combinator in 2018, and raised $59M to transform how clinical trials work - letting patients participate from home and bringing their own doctors into the research process. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022, he's on a mission to make clinical trials accessible to any patient, anywhere.