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HEALTHCARE (Con’d)

DECEMBER 2015 – JANUARY 2016

Exponential Medicine:
Healthcare is Broken, Here’s How to Fix it!
o Telepresence technologies like Suitable Technology’s
BEAM and InTouch Health will allow top physicians
to beam into locations around the world for
consultation and rounds at hospitals.

stroke, burns, cancer and osteoarthritis.
o In 2012, researchers at Cedars-Sinai reported one of
the first cases of successful therapeutic stem cell
treatment — they used patients’ own stem cells to
regenerate heart tissue and undo damage from a heart
attack.

3D Printing
On-demand manufacturing will make medical devices
cheaper and more readily accessible to millions, and it will
make scarce resources like organs-for-transplant abundantly
available.

Conclusions
The disruption and transformation of medicine is happening
right now.

o 3D Systems is 3D printing precise dental and
anatomical models, custom surgical guides,
implantable devices, exoskeletons, hearing aids,
prosthetics and braces for scoliosis and other
applications.
o Students at Washington University 3D printed a robotic
arm for about $200. Traditional robotic limbs can run
$50,000 to $70,000, and they need to be replaced as
children grow.
o Dr. Anthony Atala’s team and companies like
Organovo are 3D bio-printing with cells to produce
tissues, blood vessels and even small organs.

That's why each year I work with Dr. Daniel Kraft, head of
the medicine track at Singularity University, to bring all of
the coolest and most powerful technologies together
at Exponential Medicine.

Peter Diamandis
Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X
PRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and
launching large incentive prizes to drive radical
breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Best known for
the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight, the
Foundation is now launching prizes in Exploration, Life
Sciences, Energy, and Education.

Genomics and Big Data
The cost of genome sequencing has plummeted 100,000-fold,
from $100M per genome in 2001 to $1,000 per genome
today…outpacing Moore’s Law by 3x.

Diamandis is also the co-Founder & Executive Chairman of
the Singularity University, a Silicon Valley based institution
teaching graduates and executives about exponentially
growing technologies and their potential to address
humanity’s grand challenges.

o At Human Longevity Inc., our mission is to accumulate
the largest genomics data set ever. HLI will sequence
over 1 million full human genomes, microbiomes, MRI
body image scans, metabolomes, and more…
o Next, with that large data set, HLI be able to unlock the
secrets of our biology. We’ll find insights into and
cures for cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative
disease, and ultimately extend the human lifespan.

Diamandis recently co-Authored Abundance – The Future Is
Better Than You Think.
Diamandis has founded or co-founded many of the leading
entrepreneurial companies in this sector including Zero
Gravity Corporation, the Rocket Racing League and Space
Adventures. He also counsels the world’s top enterprises on
how to utilize exponential technologies and incentivized
innovation to dramatically accelerate their business
objectives.

Stem Cells
We are now in the earliest stages of stem cell therapy
development. Future therapies will be
transformative and, frankly, mindboggling.

Dr. Diamandis attended MIT where he received his degrees
in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering, as well as
Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D.

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Stem cell therapy
promises tissue regeneration and
renewal — and thus a “cure”
for everything from blindness to
spinal cord injuries, Type 1
diabetes, Parkinson’s disease,
Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease,

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