2 August 2021
Episode 356
15 minutes
Photo: UT Medicine
We are joined by another of the inspirational thought leaders and innovators that UBS supports and celebrates through its Global Visionaries programme. This time it’s the turn of Kamran Khan, founder and CEO of BlueDot. The company’s mission is to protect people around the world from infectious diseases by combining medical expertise with advanced data analytics to track and anticipate disease risks.
2 August 2021
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