When Merck Serono closed its Geneva headquarters, Jérôme Wojcik took a specialist skill into a company of his own. The founder of Quartz Bio has kept returning to a practical question: how do you make data worth the time it takes?

The QuartzBio CEO built his career around an unglamorous but expensive problem: a clinical sample can travel farther than the data that explains it. His answer is a connected system designed to catch the gaps before researchers have to play another round of spreadsheet detective.