Frustrated by inequities in the healthcare system, Manuri Gunawardena left medical school to try to tackle the problem head on.
She founded HealthMatch, which helps people find appropriate clinical trials for a wide range of conditions, using a unique algorithm , in 2019.
“There are very few options that focus on making it easy for patients to navigate thousands of studies,” says Gunawardena. “The real focus from day 1 has been to be incredibly patient-centric.”
At the time she conceived the idea, she was completing a sub-internship in neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University and working for a brain cancer foundation.
“I was working