Onno has been an entrepreneur his entire life, starting his first company in high school. After receiving his architecture degree, he started several companies while running a design-thinking company on the side. The year he moved to San Francisco with a startup in the social media space, he lost his hearing on the left due to a brain tumor. It took about a year for other medical examinations to reveal he had developed multiple tumors in his central nervous system due to a rare genetic disorder called NF2.
After being diagnosed, Onno shifted his efforts to the life science space. He dedicates his life to create new ways for rare disease R&D to take place and wants to give everyone with a rare disease the opportunity to leverage the technology for a healthy life. Watch his TedX talk here.
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CDX Accelerate Health + Wellness
This day-long conference held in partnership with KPMG at their Boston Seaport office and conference facility will focus on how tech and digital tools can help improve health and wellness for consumers in a post-pandemic world. Digital technologies and platforms were already transforming healthcare prior to the pandemic, but over the last two years the […]
