TechVibe Radio attended the 11th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) at the University of Pittsburgh in September to record the How I Built This – ISRII Edition interviews.

Modeled after the hugely popular How I Built This with Guy Raz podcast, How I Built This – ISRII Edition are individual interviews with faculty entrepreneurs who have been successful at transitioning to industry, licensing or creating a start-up company around their research. Moderated by ISRII co-founder and past president, Lee Ritterband, hear the origin stories with crisis, failure, tension, discomfort, triumph, and advice for success!

At the 1 minute mark, hear Tamar Krishnamurti, an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She leads the FemTech Collaborative, housed within the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Innovative Research on Gender Health Equity and is a co-founder of Naima Health LLC, whose flagship product, MyHealthyPregnancy, offers early risk assessment and intervention for adverse pregnancy outcomes.

At the 41 minute mark, hear Frances Thorndike, Executive Director of Discovery at Pear Therapeutics. She is a clinical researcher with 18 years of experience in developing and evaluating digital health therapeutics at the University of Virginia Health System (UVA). At Pear, Frances helped bring the first prescription digital therapeutic for chronic insomnia through the FDA authorization process.