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Project Update #7 — September 2022
Dear community and investors, As October begins, we are proud to share with you the seventh project update with all the incredible news from September! So many amazing things have been going on lately, so let’s get right to it.
Data Lake Founders featured in Forbes 30
We’re incredibly proud to announce that both of our founders Wojciech Sierocki and Ligia Kornowska were today selected to be featured in Forbes’ Annual 30-under-30 list! Both Wojciech and Ligia were also featured in Forbes’ 25-under-25 list in the past, so this represents the second time they have been chosen amongst Poland’s top entrepreneurs, business and thought leaders.
Data Lake Featured in SiliconRepublic
Our company was features as Startup of the Month by SiliconRepublic – a tech publication based in Ireland! We’re honored to have been chosen to be featured, and hope that we’ll be able to bring consent-based medical data donation to the Irish people soon!
Media Feature: Be In Crypto
Data Lake was featured in an article on Be In Crypto! Read on to find out how our medical data donation system could revolutionise science.
Project Update #6 — August 2022
Dear community and investors, It has been an absolutely tremendous month for Data Lake. We’ve been making significant progress on all fronts of the business, as well as hitting some MAJOR project milestones. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get right to it!
Media Feature: Yahoo Finance
The Data Lake medical data donation system was covered in an article published on Yahoo Finance! Click the image above to be taken directly to the article on their site!
AI as a means to prevent cancer, the need for Medical Data
Cancer was the second leading cause of death, after heart disease, in the United States in 2020 1, and although its mortality is decreasing over the course of the decades (from 196.5 to 144.1 deaths per 100,000 population from 2001 to 2020 2), there is still plenty of margin of improvement. For example, lung cancer alone is responsible for two million deaths worldwide in 2019. About 75% of those who have it, die within five years of diagnosis. But the situation improves drastically if the disease is found early: if tumours are still small, the mortality rate decreases as low as 33%. Prevention and screening are then fundamental tools to fight this disease, and AI may help us scale and
We have reached an agreement with the first Data Provider!
It is with great pride that we hereby announce that a Medical Entity affiliated under one of the most prominent medical universities in Europe has formally signed an agreement to become our first Data Provider. This is a huge and very crucial step towards building a global network of Data Providers! Data Lake is a complete ecosystem rather than a singular flow of data, and the fact that new medical entities are enthusiastically embracing our values and joining our mission is yet another strong sign that the time has come to unlock medical data for scientific research and progress. This milestone is another of many sources of motivation for the whole team to keep working towards building a global medical
Project Update #5 – July 2022
Dear community and investors! July has just passed and we hope you’re enjoying your summer so far! In this monthly project update, we’re taking a look what we’ve achieved at Data Lake, and where we are headed next! Don’t forget to check out our other project updates to read through our previous milestones, and keep reading for the latest.
Polygon: how it works and why we joined its ecosystem
Premise: Ethereum strengths and weaknesses Formerly known as Matic Network, Polygon was founded in October 2017 by Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal and Anurag Arjun. Polygon is a public blockchain capable of maintaining high efficiency when processing transactions, while keeping its network secure and decentralized.
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