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iLoF: Accelerating access to personalized medicine, from a drop of blood

  • Portugal
  • 5 min read
  • Feb 16, 2021
  • By Emanuela Ferraro

The iLoF founding team (L to R): CTO Joana Paiva, CEO Luís Valente, CSO Paula Sampaio and COO Mehak Mumtaz ©iLoF

Backed by Microsoft’s venture fund M12, Mayfield and Melinda Gates’s Pivotal Ventures, iLoF focuses on painless screening to facilitate disease detection, forecasting and drug development, from Alzheimer’s to Covid-19

Imagine getting your own personalized medical treatment for an illness – say, diabetes or cancer – created using all the biological, medical, behavioral and environmental information known about you. iLoF, a Porto- and Oxford-based precision medicine startup, is working to make that possible, from needing just a single drop of blood from the patient.
The goal: better predictions and preventative measures in early diagnostics, as well as accelerating and optimizing drug and treatment development – through inexpensive and non-invasive patient screening and stratification.
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