Owkin

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Owkin is a startup that provides machine learning that allows medical researchers to test AI models on distributed data. The company deploys AI and federated learning for medical research and aims to empower researchers in hospitals, universities, and pharmaceutical companies to understand why drug efficacy varies from patient to patient, enhance the drug development process, and identify the best drug for the right patient to improve treatment outcomes. It is backed by investors such as F-Prime Capital & Eight Roads Ventures, GV, Otium Ventures, Cathay Innovation, and NJF Capital as well as a scientific board. It was co-founded in 2016 by Thomas Clozel, a hematologist oncologist and researcher, and Gilles Wainrib, a computer science teacher-researcher in New York, New York.