Patients don't benefit from their donations.
Doctors don't have all the evidence.
Scientists don't see the whole picture.
You never learn what happens
...and don't share any medical, personal or monetary value of your research donations.
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We’re one of Pittsburgh’s Top Ten Startups 2023!
We’re one of Pittsburgh’s Top Ten Startups 2023!
We’re one of Pittsburgh’s Top Ten Startups 2023!
“we take this time to revisit our past coverage, talk to the tech community and conduct new research to gauge which young, local companies are on their way to making a significant impact in the new year…We’ve been calling the companies that make the grade RealLIST Startups — meaning they’re “real,” or serious, with impressive products, goals, founders or funders…”
Hopkins Magazine
We’re one of Pittsburgh’s Top Ten Startups 2023!
We’re one of Pittsburgh’s Top Ten Startups 2023!
What if a new technology eliminated the trade-off between research benefits and patient privacy?
Katz Business News
We’re one of Pittsburgh’s Top Ten Startups 2023!
Katz Business News
“We are excited to have our students learn from heny given its unique and challenging work. Their introduction to blockchain, biobanking, marketplaces, and patient rights through heny has been invaluable.”
Leaps.org
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Katz Business News
“Compared to the system that allowed Lacks’s cells to be used without her permission," Shapiro said, “blockchain technology using nonfungible tokens that allow patients to follow their samples may enhance transparency, accountability and respect for persons who contribute their tissue and clinical data for research.”
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
“At the end of the day, people’s lives could be saved [with] a pathway from the research lab back to the patient,” Gross points out. “And so that’s what we’re building.”
Medical Ethics Advisor
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
“The app serves as a platform for increased transparency of research activities and provides critical infrastructure for the return of research results that may inform healthcare decisions,” Hood explains.
Hopkins HUB
Technical.ly Mag
Hopkins HUB
"Bringing patients into the fold as true stakeholders in research allows for increased trust, transparency, and participation in biomedical research..."
PittWire
Technical.ly Mag
Hopkins HUB
"We’re re-framing research participation as membership in an investment collective, a token-based decentralized autonomous organization pooling bio-assets that positions patients as co-investigators...”
Technical.ly Mag
Technical.ly Mag
Technical.ly Mag
"...the potential role of blockchain [technologies] and how they can address these fundamental disconnects in our healthcare system and how we treat people."
JMIR blog
Roundtable Interview
Technical.ly Mag
“HeLa cells are the original “use case” for NFTs, as they demonstrate the imperative of maintaining the provenance of nonfungible human-derived assets and the fiduciary duties to respective patients.”
Roundtable Interview
Roundtable Interview
Roundtable Interview
“Our ownership of our physical selves is profound and universal,
but it does not yet extend into the digital realm.”