Million Marker

What if we could end chronic disease and improve fertility? What if we could effectively detox our lives? Everyday environmental exposures may exacerbate the risk of developing a chronic disease to a greater degree than genetics alone.i What if there is an easy way to track and reduce these chemical exposures? Million Marker utilizes chemical metabolites and personal exposure analysis to allow individuals to measure and track their own exposure to toxic environmental chemicals. Our vision is to discover over a million biomarkers of exposure. We believe these “Million Markers” will inform and improve individual health and advance precision medicine. We aim to achieve this goal by selling direct-to-consumer testing kits, building the world’s most comprehensive chemical metabolite database, and conducting research studies using our laboratory and technological platforms. As part of Y-Combinator’s Spring 2019 cohort, Million Marker is raising more capital to purchase new laboratory equipment and hire additional chemists and researchers to scale its testing capabilities and reduce consumer costs.

Graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2019 Cohort
Partnership agreement with the University of California, San Francisco and support from Stanford University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
MOU with Parley for the Oceans (international ocean conservation NGO) and contract with The Community (Publicis Groupe) to launch a plastic awareness campaign in Summer 2021
Provides mail-in test kits to measure personal exposure of potentially harmful environmental chemicals

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Jenna Hua, PhD, MPH, RD
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jenna’s extensive experience as an academic and health advocate led to her founding Million Marker in 2019, shortly after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Stanford University’s School of Medicine. Throughout her career in academia, Jenna has researched and published numerous studies that largely focused on citizens science, general health, and the impact of food consumption on a person’s well-being. In one of her most recent publications, Jenna used machine learning to identify people based on food consumed in order to offer healthier food options.xxxiii She also published another report that studied the arsenic exposure and risks of eating rice within adolescents in Kunming, China.xxxiv Jenna has been a Project Manager for UNC’s Carolina Population Center, a Graduate Instructor and Research Assistant at UC Berkeley, and a Project Manager at UCLA’s Center for Population Research. She was also a US Fulbright Fellow at the Institute of International Education in Kunming, China. Jenna holds a BS in Nutrition and an MPH and PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley.

Laurynas Riliskis, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Larry is a seasoned technologist and entrepreneur who brings over 10 years of experience to Million Marker. Aside from his position at Million Marker, Larry is the director of engineering at BehavioSec, a behavioral biometrics company. He also serves as an expert advisor for the European Commission, an independent governmental organization that prepares legislation for the Council and Parliament. In 2018, Larry founded Victor AI, an AI-powered compliance officer to assist companies by automating regulatory compliance. The company was part of the Spring 2019 cohort in Lex Lab’s accelerator program.xxxv Larry also founded Harmony.ai, a SaaS data privacy company that automates workflows and enables compliance for GDPR and other regulations. Larry holds an MS in computer science and a Ph.D. in computer networking from the Luleå University of Technology. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at Stanford University.

Johanna Rochester, PhD
Chief Scientist Officer
Jo has spent the last decade studying how environmental stressors affect hormones and health. She was on the front lines of endocrine disruption research, especially in relation to human exposures and health effects. She has published several scoping and systematic reviews, including a pivotal one on BPA and human health. This review has been cited over 1,000 times, greatly furthering epidemiological BPA research, and was used as the basis for regulation of BPA under California’s Proposition 65. Jo holds an MS and PhD from the University of California, Davis, and did her postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She then worked at TEDX, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, the foremost non-profit in endocrine disruption research and science translation.

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