Zach DeBruine from Herd Social on the Michigan Innovation Podcast with Rose Odette

Dr. Zach DeBruine launched a startup Herd Social, Inc. during Tech Week in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The company is pushing the boundaries of AI in healthcare, by building a social platform for the rare disease community which aims to foster communities for learning and support among individuals and families struggling with rare diseases. Herd Social was conceived by DeBruine this past year while participating in the University of Michigan Medical School's Fast Forward Medical Innovation FastPace program. In addition, the startup was one of the finalists in the recent Start Garden 100 pitch contest. DeBruine is a faculty member in the GVSU College of Computing and leads a research group within the Applied Computing Institute that builds AI tools for bioinformaticians. You can sign up to help beta test the initial Herd product here: https://join.herdsocial.com/ Zach's early Ph.D. training was in molecular biology, then he pivoted during covid to computer science developed popular bioinformatics tools, and established a well-funded research group building generative genomics AI technologies.  Now he is committed to driving innovation that brings the power of our research technologies to rare disease patients and their caregivers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachdebruine/ https://youtu.be/hZdBpXI2sMs?si=oxmzLGjm0ra2RgPR https://www.gvsu.edu/aci/module-news-view.htm?storyId=403901A8-931B-BCD5-0C38C17C0BD15C35&siteModuleId=0324BEDD-08D2-9A14-7FA65E12895C55DE  https://join.herdsocial.com/