Medical Misfits

Luka Opasic: Evolutionary Biology and Detecting Diseases Through Eye Movements


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Things we talked about
  • How he got into evoluationary biology
  • How become the first doctor to join the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology as a researcher
  • His research on modelling cancer in software
  • Why he moved back from the US (doing research at the Cleveland Clinic) to Germany
  • How he managed to leave research to join the startup industry, getting his job at Bulbitech
  • What he did at Bulbitech: Detecting diseases through eye movements
  • Why writing skills are so important
Links As Mentioned In The Podcast
  • Luka on LinkedIn
  • CancerSim: The software (python package) which Luka co-developed for the simulation of cancer.
  • Bulbitech: The startup Luka worked at, building software for detecting diseases through eye movements.
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Medical MisfitsBy Oliver Eidel