Jonathan Hirsch is the Founder and President of Syapse, a software company transforming healthcare by bringing omics into routine medical use. He is a member of the UCSF Technology Advisory Group, and a member of the Steering Committee of Free the Data, an effort to crowdsource the interpretation of cancer genes. Earlier in his career, he worked in Neuroscience Commercial Development at Abbott Laboratories, where he developed strategies to fund drug development through partnerships and private equity financing. His research at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago helped establish the effect of exercise on promoting hippocampal neurogenesis and combating Alzheimer’s disease. He received an MSci in Neuroscience from Stanford University, and an AB in Biology and Political Philosophy from the University of Chicago. Jonathan Hirsch is the Founder and President of Syapse, a software company transforming healthcare by bringing omics into routine medical use. He is a member of the UCSF Technology Advisory Group, and a member of the Steering Committee of Free the Data, an effort to crowdsource the interpretation of cancer genes. Earlier in his career, he worked in Neuroscience Commercial Development at Abbott Laboratories, where he developed strategies to fund drug development through partnerships and private equity financing. His research at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago helped establish the effect of exercise on promoting hippocampal neurogenesis and combating Alzheimer’s disease. He received an MSci in Neuroscience from Stanford University, and an AB in Biology and Political Philosophy from the University of Chicago.

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