AminoChain

After 2 years of building in silence we’re so excited to finally share AminoChain with the world! Every year, patients donate millions of cancer samples to scientific research. These samples are stored in biobanks and distributed to researchers and bio-pharma companies to study diseases and create novel therapeutics. Biobanks are powerhouses of precision medicine as they catalog thousands of diseases and standardize research output. However, biobanks only use an average of 10% of the samples in their inventories, and it takes up to 2 months for a pharma company to find, acquire and license a sample from a biobank. There is little to no effective infrastructure for bio-sample and data sharing between institutions, and worst of all, patients often do not know how their samples are used in scientific research. AminoChain is a blockchain protocol that connects enterprise medical institutions, and on which healthcare applications can be built. The first application built on AminoChain is a bio-sample marketplace that lets researchers query for and license samples across a network of biobanks. The best part: any hospital or biobank can enable features that let patients and bio-sample donors track how their samples are used in scientific research, and patients can share in the commercial and scientific value that is derived from their donated samples. While the first application built on AminoChain is a bio-sample marketplace, the protocol can power hundreds of further used-owned and decentralized healthcare applications. AminoChain is building an entirely new on-chain bioeconomy, where patients are the first to benefit from their participation in scientific research. We’re very excited to announce our $5M seed round led by a16z crypto, bringing our total funding to date to $7.8M. See below to read more about AminoChain and our latest funding round, and to view our open roles. https://lnkd.in/dSZdpbpY https://lnkd.in/dTXQgsEU

Firing up all cylinders at AminoChain! Full stackers and Blockchain Engineers, if you are game to be part of founding team to build, ship and launch, I'd love to speak with you. Team is keen to set up presence in NY, brining great people together and build a robust team culture. Hybrid arrangement in NY is a sure must!