Mary Lou Jepsen
maryloujepsen.bsky.social
Mary Lou Jepsen
@maryloujepsen.bsky.social
CEO & Founder Openwater, Former exec @Goog & FB, Co-founder & CTO One Laptop per Child MIT Professor, PhD in Physics Brown U, Deeply technical w/ ~300 patents
And more info about Openwater here: www.openwater.health
September 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Newsweek spoke to me about our journey, the importance of semiconductors to allow emerging medical technology to target cancer cells & how open-source technology can bring down the exorbitant time & money costs needed to create a novel therapeutic device.

www.investmentreports.co/interview/ma...
Mary Lou Jepsen, Openwater
www.investmentreports.co
March 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Honored to share more about the work we’re doing with @ TechBlitz. Note: the Google translation from Japanese to English isn't great. In particular: Sergey and Mark didn't try to stop me when I worked for them; they just didn't want to fund it.
February 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Also: Openwater's Brad Hartl is delivering his invited paper on Open-Motion on Sunday at 2PM in Moscone South. spie.org/photonics-we...
Open-Motion: an open source high sensitivity low cost blood flowmeter platform | SPIE Photonics West
View presentations details for Open-Motion: an open source high sensitivity low cost blood flowmeter platform at SPIE Photonics West
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January 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
General purposes devices using ultrasound levels and infrared light levels show safe for 100 years on billions of people and the consumer electronics supply chain.
January 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Fully #Opensource, always: Where the devices at scale will be the price of a smartphone and the treatments can reach the cost of a phone call.

No drugs needed nor shortages.
January 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Example: openwater.health offers low cost treatments for a range of #cancer s, #mentaldisease, #neurodegenerative disease and #cardiovascular disease in pre-clinical and clinical development now.
January 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
but never discuss the cost of the outcomes: More $1M therapies that the vast majority of humanity can't afford.

An alternative approach - #opensource and general purpose devices.
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January 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Today's new drug therapies are now over $1M per dose because of the couple of billion $ spent on each regulatory approval.

It sounds like more of the same and I assume the NGOs and Governments will pour in financial support as well...
January 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM