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Podcast: Pharmacy Podcast Network
Episode: Nectar Life Sciences & The Pharma Movie
Description: Ken Chahine, founder and CEO at Nectar Life Sciences on your radar. Ken has a fascinating story: a child of immigrant parents, neither of whom finished elementary school, he earned a PhD in Biochemistry (U of Michigan) and a JD in patent law.Â
After transforming the field of genetic testing for genealogy as General Manager of Ancestry DNA, he founded Nectar, a health tech company revolutionizing the allergy space with at-home allergy testing and treatment with sublingual drops.
In grad school, Ken suffered from severe allergies that made lab work in goggles near-impossible. When he discovered the healthcare system’s...