25/06/2021
On today's episode Alice speaks with Noor Siddiqui, the founder of Orchid Health, a company that quantifies the genetic risks of your future children.
Alice & Noor discuss the plunge in genome sequencing costs and why Orchid's ability to predict polygenic diseases impacts so many families compared to predicting single-gene diseases.
Noor reveals what it was like starting a company remotely during COVID, how her mother's own rare disease motivated her and what genetic privilege means.
They also discuss her path from doing a Thiel fellowship to teaching a crypto class at Stanford to doing genomics and AI research with Sebastian Thrun. Finally, they get into their contrarian views and why biology advances seem to provoke the strongest pushback.
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5smm299R4UXejyjvzykUdC?si=ef2a8f3e727646ae
Full transcript: https://thefluxpodcast.medium.com/30-noor-siddiqui-predicting-your-future-childs-health-just-got-easier-a9b2e20bde9d
Listen to the episode on iTunes.
