How design is driving change in healthcare January 11, 2016 Designing for healthcare can force you to rethink everything you thought you knew about how people behave. The industry’s dense thicket of lawyers, privacy r... Continue Reading
Counsyl Appoints Ted Snelgrove as Chief Business Officer January 8, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Counsyl, a health technology company that offers DNA testing for diseases that can impact men, women and their children, today... Continue Reading
World Technology Summit Awards Counsyl for Innovation in Health & Medicine November 25, 2015 What do 3-D printing of soft tissues, space travel to Pluto and population screening for rare diseases have in common? One word: innovation. Last week in New Yo... Continue Reading
A long search leads to a diagnosis and the birth of a foundation November 13, 2015 [caption id="attachment_1113" align="alignleft" width="269"] Melissa and her daughter Ginny.[/caption] When my daughter Ginny was born seven years ago I immedia... Continue Reading
Grateful for the DNA test she almost didn’t take October 28, 2015 [caption id="attachment_1104" align="aligncenter" width="407"] Lia is thriving on a low-copper diet.[/caption] Shortly after our daughter, Lia, was born I found... Continue Reading
500,000 patients screened, and growing October 9, 2015 [caption id="attachment_1090" align="aligncenter" width="411"] Co-founders Rishi Kacker, Ramji Srinivasan, and Eric Evans in Counsyl's state-of-the-art laborato... Continue Reading
Catching up with Counsyl’s Jonathan Wan after DreamForce October 6, 2015 Jonathan Wan, Product Deployment Director Easiest way to explain what he does: I lead up a team of product managers, platform engineers, and project managers to... Continue Reading
Counsyl makes DNA testing for inherited cancers an option for thousands more women every year September 23, 2015 To understand the difference Counsyl’s Inherited Cancer Screen (ICS) could make in the way cancer is managed, consider the story of Joanne*, a mother of two ... Continue Reading
A scientist studies how fragile X syndrome affects one family – her own August 27, 2015 [caption id="attachment_1024" align="aligncenter" width="369"] Alex and her fiance, Donny.[/caption] We didn’t know fragile X syndrome runs in our family unti... Continue Reading
Doing my research led to a love affair August 20, 2015 I’m the kind of person who does my research before making an important decision. As the only child of a single mom who worked as an electrical engineer at NAS... Continue Reading
A daughter decides to find out her cancer risk August 7, 2015 [caption id="attachment_984" align="aligncenter" width="687"] Victoria with a photo of her mother taken a few years before she died.[/caption] The strongest mem... Continue Reading
Finding out you’re one in a million can be life-changing July 30, 2015 Stanley was our first baby. He’s the bulldog my husband, DJ, and I adopted after we moved in together. We named him after the sports bar in Chicago where we m... Continue Reading
For the love of Pete: Challenging what it means to live with SMA July 16, 2015 [caption id="attachment_931" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Allyson and Tim Henkel with Lucy, Ian, Chris, and Pete at Expo 2015 in Milan.[/caption] Pete and h... Continue Reading
Sharing data is part of Counsyl’s DNA June 10, 2015 [caption id="attachment_911" align="aligncenter" width="1529"] Team Genomic: Matthew Leggett, Chris Beaumont, Matthew Rassmussen, and David Tran[/caption] Every... Continue Reading
Startup veterans talk Silicon Valley mystique and advice for new graduates May 20, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezs_Bvxo1LE Stanford hosted a 50th anniversary event recently in honor of its computer science department and more than 600 peopl... Continue Reading