The microbiome holds great promise for unraveling the mysteries of human health –from auto immune conditions to cancer to longevity. Insights at the individual patient level should prove invaluable.

But it’s very difficult to interpret microbiome tests due to their complexity and the impossibility of keeping up with the fast moving scientific literature.

My guest, Leo Grady is tackling this challenge head on as founder and CEO of Jona, which has developed a proprietary Large Language model to leverage artificial intelligence to generate microbiome insights tailored to the individual.

Leo has a long history in AI. Before founding Jona he as CEO of Paige.ai in cancer diagnostics, ran product development at HeartFlow, and worked on computer vision at Siemens.

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Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group.

Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.

Interview with Jona CEO Leo Grady