Dr. AJ Kumar
Dr. Kumar is the Chief Scientific Officer at Jana Care. Jana Care focuses on biomarker assisted chronic disease management. He was a Peace Corps volunteer and a Post-Doc in the Whitesides group at Harvard where he invented a point of care test for sickle disease and worked on low-cost diagnostics. He earned his BS in Physics from Stanford and his PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard.
In this interview Dr. Kumar talks about his career pathway (which includes physics, engineering) and how low cost technologies can influence medical care.
Scientist Spotlight Interview – October 2017
Listen to podcast (audio only) version of interview
Additional Information
In this interview on the Digital Biotech podcast, Dr. Kumar goes into additional detail about the work that Jana Care does. If you’re interested in the medical details or the business side of things, I recommend listening.
While a graduate student at Harvard, AJ gave this Harvard Horizons talk in 2014. In it, AJ talks about the development of a low-cost test for sickle cell disease.
SoundCloud podcast (audio only) version of the interview.