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Andrew Le

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Andrew Le is an American medical researcher.[1] He research and publishes his work on AI use in healthcare and brain cancer.[2]

Life and education

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He was born in the United States to Vietnamese immigrants who escaped Vietnam by boat in 1979.[3] He attended Taylor High School, where he actively participated in charity work, raising funds for shelters after Hurricane Katrina.[4]

He pursued higher education at Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.[5] He then earned his doctorate of medicine from Harvard Medical School, specializing in neurosurgery.[6]

Career and research

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During his medical training, he observed patients frequently resorting to online symptom searches, leading to misinformation and potential harm to their health.[7] While a third-year medical resident at Harvard Medical School in 2014, Le co-founded Buoy Health with his colleague Eddie Reyes.[8] He developed an AI-powered digital health tool that would function as a health-specific search engine, offering patients information and guidance.[1]

Le and his colleagues gathered enough data to educate the algorithm by hand-reading the 18,000-plus articles, then developing an algorithm to crunch the figures in real-time for everyone.[8]

He looked at 100 standardized cases with 33 varied diagnoses, ranging from a harmless cough to a potentially fatal pulmonary embolism, as well as the incidence of uncommon illnesses like histoplasmosis and the common cold.[7]

He has led Buoy through two successful investment rounds, raising over $67 million with healthcare investors like Optum, Cigna, Humana, and WR Hambrecht + Co, since establishing the firm out of Harvard Innovation Labs in 2014.[9]

Selected publications

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  • Le, Andrew; Reinshagen, Clemens; Redjal, Navid; Walcott, Brian P.; McDonnell, Erin; Dietrich, Jorg; Nahed, Brian V. (May 2016). "Valproic acid, compared to other antiepileptic drugs, is associated with improved overall and progression-free survival in glioblastoma but worse outcome in grade II/III gliomas treated with temozolomide". Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 127 (3): 505–514. doi:10.1007/s11060-016-2054-8. PMID 26830093.
  • Le, Andrew; Tsimelzon, Anna; Long, Weiwen; Foulds, Charles E.; Tsai, Sophia Y.; Tsai, Ming-Jer; O'Malley, Bert W. (1 May 2010). "Research Resource: Expression Profiling Reveals Unexpected Targets and Functions of the Human Steroid Receptor RNA Activator (SRA) Gene". Molecular Endocrinology. 24 (5): 1090–1105. doi:10.1210/me.2009-0427. PMC 2870939. PMID 20219889.
  • Le, Andrew; Walcott, Brian P.; Redjal, Navid; Coumans, Jean-Valery (October 2014). "Cervical osteophyte resulting in compression of the jugular foramen: Case report". Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. 21 (4): 565–567. doi:10.3171/2014.6.SPINE13908.
  • Le, Andrew; Barkauskas (August 2014). "Repair and Regeneration of the Respiratory System: Complexity, Plasticity, and Mechanisms of Lung Stem Cell Function". Cell Stem Cell. 15 (2): 123–138. doi:10.1016/j.stem.2014.07.012. PMID 25105578.

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