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Briya
Briya is a healthcare data company that connects hospitals, health systems, and researchers to life sciences organizations through a secure, privacy-preserving data exchange network. Its blockchain-secured infrastructure standardizes electronic health records and keeps data at its source, while its flagship product, Briya AIRE, is a clinical-grade conversational AI research platform that lets scientists query and analyze real-world medical data in plain language. Founded in 2020 by David Lazerson and Guy Tish, Briya spans a global network of more than 120 million patient records and aims to accelerate medical and epidemiological research without the friction of traditional data integration.
Robert Chu
Robert Chu is the co-founder and CEO of Embleema, a New York-based clinical research platform that collects and generates regulatory-grade evidence to accelerate precision medicine. He founded the company in 2017 after nearly three decades in enterprise technology and life sciences data, including roles as Senior Vice President of Global Technology Solutions at IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS), where he ran a 1,400-person, $800M SaaS business, and prior leadership positions at IMS Health in France, China, and Asia Pacific, following 15+ years at IBM. Trained as an engineer at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, he now works at the intersection of patient consent, blockchain, and clinical data collection, with Embleema partnering with pharma sponsors and the FDA on real-world evidence workflows.
Citizen Health
Citizen Health is a San Francisco-based AI health platform built for people living with rare and complex conditions. It pulls a patient's fragmented medical records into one place, turns them into a structured, queryable dataset, and layers on an AI advocate plus a peer community so patients, families, and clinicians can ask plain-language questions and find the next best step. Consenting patient data also powers research for pharmaceutical partners. The company grew out of Ciitizen, the patient-data startup acquired by Invitae, and relaunched independently in December 2023.
Farid Vij
Farid Vij is the co-founder and CEO of Citizen Health, a San Francisco startup building an AI Advocate for patients living with rare and complex conditions. He turns fragmented medical records, genetics, and lived patient experience into proactive guidance families can act on. Before Citizen, he co-founded Ciitizen in 2017, sold it to Invitae, and ran its patient-data business. He is a Wharton graduate who believes patients, not systems, should own and benefit from their own health data.