Precision Diagnostics & Health
How medicine can move from detecting disease to understanding and preserving health by connecting biological history, present measurement and possible future trajectories.
Explore the idea →José Pereira Leal
Barcelona · Lisbon · Doha
Scientist, entrepreneur, writer and institution-builder.
I work at the intersection of science, healthcare, innovation, capital and policy.
Over the last three decades, my work has spanned academic research, clinical diagnostics, venture creation, health-innovation ecosystems and translational medicine. Throughout, I have been particularly interested in how scientific knowledge becomes real-world impact: how it moves beyond the laboratory into useful tools, viable companies, stronger institutions and better clinical practice.
Within precision medicine, I have chosen to focus on diagnostics. I believe we need better tools: diagnostics that learn from the past, assess the present and inform us about possible futures.
The ambition is larger than better tests: to help medicine move from a science of disease towards a science of health.
Ideas
Four areas of focus
My work and writing currently focus on four areas.
Innovation & Translation
How promising science becomes an evidence-backed product or venture that survives contact with clinical practice, regulation, markets and scale.
Explore the idea →Diagnostics Sovereignty
How countries and regions can preserve the diagnostic capabilities their health systems depend on, in normal times and in crises.
Explore the idea →Systems & Futures
How technology can build better futures, create abundance from unlikely places and make human lives better.
Explore the idea →Selected work
Current and recent work across diagnostics development, institutional capability and writing.
Framework · Version 1.0Diagnostics Readiness Levels
A multidimensional framework for evaluating diagnostic and biomarker development from concept to adoption.
Explore →Book in progressThe Import ConditionDiagnostics, sovereignty and the Gulf’s industrial moment.
Explore →Published bookPrecision Diagnostics: A Founder’s JourneyWhat it takes to build diagnostics at the frontiers of medicine.
Explore →Europe and the Gulf
Working across disciplines, institutions and geographies.
I work selectively with people and organisations confronting consequential questions in diagnostics, precision medicine, innovation and health infrastructure.