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The Problems Facing Biotech and Pharma Research- No way to produce clean data when quantifying complex shapes of cells in 2D culture or 3D organoids in a dish.- No way to produce clean data when measuring the irregular shapes of cells in histology images and blood smear images.- Noisy data from measuring area, volume, and signal intensity results in false discoveries or no discoveries. The Problems Facing STEM Education Programs- Lack of on-demand and live training programs teaching how to do image analysis for STEM research, even though so much of STEM relies on analyzing images. - No easy-to-use software allowing high school and college students to contribute to science by making discoveries based on publicly available STEM image archives or smartphone images.- For students who don't know how to do computer programming -- or who don't like to code -- there is no software allowing them to easily express their scientific creativity in STEM research. 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Who Will Benefit?- Biotech and pharma companies that are unable to measure subtle, but important phenotypes in cells, tissues, and organs.- University STEM departments that want to equip their students with cutting-edge research tools for the future.- Researchers who need to make sense of phenotypic data, or who want to integrate phenotypic data with genomic/transcriptomic data. - Private high schools who want their STEM students to be career ready with cutting-edge skills.How Will We Make Money?- We will continue to partner with more private high school education institutions to offer our workshops and software in a profit-sharing model. - We will sell research consulting services to academic labs and biotech companies. - Our shape-analysis software, called ShapeGenie, will be offered as a monthly subscription SaaS product.\u0026nbsp;We will have three tiers of subscription pricing to accommodate subscribers ranging from\u0026nbsp;individuals to hospitals to pharma corporations.\u0026nbsp;When used for purely research purposes, it does not require FDA approval before we sell it. \u0026nbsp;- We will also offer consulting services alongside access to ShapeGenie. Companies will hire us to extract shape features and build predictive machine learning models for their research question (like \"Why doesn't this group of patients respond to our drug?\").- Regarding our diagnostic machine learnings models, such as for Alzheimer's Disease: after FDA approval we\u0026nbsp;will sell our services at a discount to health providers (our customers), such as Kaiser and Anthem Blue Cross / Shield. They sell our services at a marked-up price to their patients (the end-users).\u0026nbsp;The Deeper Story of BrainScanologyIn 2013, one of Dr. Nguyen's good friends from college took his own life because of bipolar disorder. His name was Thuan Trinh. At Thuan's funeral, Dr. Nguyen promised that he would do something about bipolar disorder one day. At the time, Dr. Nguyen was studying cancer biology, so he didn't know what that promise would even look like. 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We will seek FDA approval towards the end of 2021.\u0026nbsp;Re: software rollout: We will have a subscription model. We will receive our 250 initial..."},{"question":"Hi there! Do you plan to further extend the list of illnesses the algorithm can scan after your launch your current version?","answer":"Hi, Evgeny. Yes, we plan to work on predicting bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Autism, and ADHD. In the next year or two, the primary focus will be on bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's. Best, Dave"},{"question":"You include free 'risk analyses' in your perks. What are the details related to completing an analyses? Where do you go, does it including paying for an MRI or EEG, etc.? Thank you.","answer":"MRI’s can be performed at any outpatient imaging center or hospital. Once you have the MRI result, we can send you or your clinic a website to upload the MRI. We then download your MRI from this portal and perform an analysis. 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