Jim Karkanias
Jim Karkanias
is Advisor at Northwest Association for Biomedical Research,
Board member at Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association
(WBBA), and Partner, Applied Research and Technology at
Microsoft.
He is also an advisor to the Singularity University for the
topics of medicine and
neuroscience.
Jim joined Microsoft in 2006 to apply these skills in a new venture
— the
Health Solutions Group — which aims to revolutionize healthcare
through
paradigm shifting approaches that integrate next generation business,
process, and technology. Four years and 57 patents later, he’s helped to
create an information platform for health and lifesciences spanning the
physician, the consumer, and most recently the scientist.
This most recent product is notable in that it advances both storage and
reasoning technologies to a new high and holds a record for the largest
and quickest customer wins, totaling many tens of millions, just a few
months after shipping.
His specialties include:
complex software development including hands-on development and
technical architecture, global operations, process engineering, and
business development for large enterprises at the business, procedural
and technical level, all aspects of the lifescience industry,
and extensive
startup expertise.
Jim has conducted research projects earlier in his career involving
neuroplasticity,
sensorium integration, pain modulation, cognition, memory, and network
theory in classical and bioengineering contexts. He has a strong science
and math
background.
Read
Microsoft Strengthens Its Involvement in Life Sciences and
Singularity U.: It’s No Sci-Fi Fantasy —
The new university, named after a futuristic vision, is drawing a lot of
serious attention.
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