Divya Nag

Divya Nag (born c. 1991) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur and biologist with a cardiology emphasis that has, since 2014, been employed by Apple Health, as of 2016 involved as a team lead in Special Projects.

While a Stanford undergraduate, Nag, working with Stanford Medicine faculty members in cardiology (and a more senior trainee), helped found Stem Cell Theranostics, a company whose aim was to develop patient-specific stem cells for use as a drug discovery platform. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Jaipur, India, before she was born. She began research in the lab of Joseph C. Wu, studying stem cells, their induction, and their potential use in transplantation. She also explored various aspects of cardiovascular disease. Nag began to work alongside Wu and Stanford professor Robert Robbins and Wu laboratory MD-PhD trainee in Chemical Systems Biology, Andrew Lee, to create a drug testing platform where rapid assessment of drug candidate safety and efficacy could be performed on stem cell-derived human heart tissue, with the aim of expediting drug discovery. With the more senior Robbins, Wu, and Lee, Nag participated in the launch of the company Stem Cell Theranostics (various sources state 2011-2013 founding dates), to begin commercializing the Wu and Robbins technologies.

Career Stem Cell Theranostics While a Stanford undergraduate, Nag, working with physician scientists Robert C. Robbins and Joseph C. Wu, and Stanford MD-PhD trainee Andrew Lee, helped found Stem Cell Theranostics, a company whose aim has been to develop patient-specific stem cells for use in a drug discovery platform; dates of founding vary between 2011 and 2013.

The Stem Cell Theranostics website became inactive some time after April 2016,

StartX Med Nag and Wu laboratory colleague Andrew Lee co-founded StartX Med at Stanford University in 2012. StartX Med is the part of the Stanford StartX organization that supports students in their path towards innovating and developing startups through Stanford, specifically in the healthcare and medical areas. She was inspired by her own experiences starting Stem Cell Theranostics as she saw added hurdles in starting a healthcare startup compared to the typical technology startup that StartX supported. 2017 Fortune 40 under 40 2016 The Most Creative People In Business 2016, by Fast Company 2016 Silicon Valley Top 100, by Business Insider, no. 72. 2016 25 Coolest Women in Silicon Valley, by Business Insider. 2014 30-Under-30 Who Are Changing The World, by Forbes.com, in the Science & Healthcare category. 2014 Business Insider Most Powerful Millennials under 35 2011 American Heart Association Undergraduate Fellowship Stanford University Thought Leader

Select publications From the Apple Heart Study (Stanford, Apple, etc.) Stanford's Marco V. Perez and Mintu P. Turakhia communicating:

From Stanford Stanford's Joseph C. Wu or Patricia K. Nguyen communicating: