Meet five Minnesota entrepreneurs taking big swings at health care innovation that could improve disease detection and treatment.
By Allison Kaplan
Ping Yeh // Vocxi Health
St. Paul-based Vocxi Health has developed a breath test to detect lung cancer (and other diseases). This innovation is 10 years in the making, involving doctors and researchers at Mayo Clinic and Boston Scientific. A serial medtech entrepreneur and advisor fluent in both science and business, Yeh came on as CEO to help Vocxi get ready to commercialize MyBreathPrint, a mobile breathing device that measures the volatile organic compound pattern of disease in breath for early, non-invasive cancer detection that is more cost-effective than a CT scan. Clinical testing is expected this year.
Mission: A cancer survivor, “I’m paying forward my second opportunity at life to leverage technology to improve the lives of millions.”
Trend: “I’m generally excited about early disease detection or health management, as it will produce large gains on outcomes. It’s a lot easier to keep people healthy.”
