I am proud to chair this important program with Mary Lou Jepsen PhD at The Commonwealth Club in May.
Preclinical data suggests Openwater’s wearable can destroy glioblastoma cancer cells 5x better than chemotherapy with no damage to the healthy brain tissue. This could be a game changer for all aggressive cancers. Using the same basic hardware with a different software layer, we are quelling over-firing neurons in humans via depression studies where we can see the results on MRI scans and correlate to the self-reported lowering of depression. We intend to expand these studies to addiction and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Our first product has the potential to save millions of lives with fast treatment for stroke. The very same architecture ultimately could be used for non-invasive brain computer interface. Dr. Jepsen will discuss these programs in detail and the implications for effective low-cost health care for all.
In 2016, Mary Lou Jepsen founded OpenWater, a tech health startup. The company now says that preclinical data suggests OpenWater’s wearable can destroy glioblastoma cancer cells 5 times better than chemotherapy, with no damage to the healthy brain tissue. This could be a game changer for all aggressive cancers. Using the same basic hardware with a different software layer, the company is working on quelling over-firing neurons in humans via depression studies, where it says the results on MRI scans correlate to the self-reported lowering of depression. OpenWater intends to expand these studies to addiction and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Its first product has the potential to save millions of lives with a fast treatment for stroke; the very same architecture ultimately could be used for a non-invasive brain computer interface. Dr. Jepsen will discuss these programs in detail and the implications for effective low-cost health care for all.
From virtual and augmented reality systems to laptops and smartphones, from holography to health wearables, Mary Lou Jepsen has touched a wide range of technologies. And she’s not slowing down. Right now, she’s working on a suite of cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutic wearables aimed at curing cancer, mental diseases and stroke.
Jepsen was executive director of engineering at both Google and Facebook, a CTO at Intel, and the founder of four successful startups, including co-founding One Laptop per Child, a nonprofit that transformed education in developing countries. Jepsen is a former professor at MIT and currently serves as a director at two public companies: LEA, a $20 billion tier-1 automotive company, and LAZR, the world leader in LiDAR systems. She’s advised government officials in multiple countries, including the United States, and has been named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world, CNN’s top 10 thinkers, Forbes‘ 50 over 50, and numerous professional societies in the fields of optics, display, and electronics. https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2023-05-24/cancer-depression-and-stroke-how-wearables-may-help
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