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I School startup Clinico uses blockchain to give clinical trial patients the ability to secure, share, and profit from their data.

Clinico is led by MIMS ’18 students Edward Yip and Shannon Hamilton, their team is one of fifteen finalists for the upcoming ‘Frontier Innovation Awards 2018: Blockchain’, vying for a prize of up to one million dollars in seed or token capital.

Clinico allows patients across clinical trials to upload their data in one place. Researchers can access that data using encrypted contracts for data requests, use, and informed consent. Then, patients receive automatic payments whenever their data is used.

Dean Saxenian: As leaders of a school that graduates professional master’s students who will take their places as data scientists, user-experience designers, product managers and more, we need to fearlessly stake out a path to overdue change by educating a diverse array of students and providing them with a pipeline into a more diverse tech industry.

One way we strive to increase and support our female population is by showcasing the talented women who are succeeding at the top of the tech world via our own school programming, such as our upcoming DataEDGE conference on April 24.