[17] The iQ sells for just over $2,000, and is now commercially available. [2][28] In 2002, the couple started the nonprofit Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases which works on treatments for tuberous sclerosis, a rare disease that affects one of their children. GENE MACHINE Yacht - Jonathan Rothberg's $35M Superyacht Over the past six weeks, hed left the boat only for short tours of the estuary, and for afternoon pedal-boarding for exercise in the tidal marshes. Rothberg has come, over time, to recognize his own administrative shortcomings, and for the COVID-19 project he hired some proven mercenaries for help. (Courtesy), Jonathan Rothbergs portable MRI machine. While he took videoconference meetings one day, I was joined on the sundeck by his intern, Isaac Bean, a self-taught molecular biologist and maker whod answered a Twitter call for help, spoken to Rothberg an hour later, and driven from Colorado Springs to Savannah the next day. Governance - Board of Directors - Person Details - Butterfly Network Elana and an intern at her fathers Guilford bioscience hub, 4Catalyzer, spent days filtering vials of water, extracting DNA and preparing the samples for sequencing, all out of a tiny lab aboard the 55-meter Amels boat. This summer, they launched the research project by collecting samples from 32 bodies of water across the world. In a Zoom call with The Times of Israel earlier this year, he described the boat as a coronavirus bubble. Hes proud that his portable MRI is being offered to 40 low-resource countries that never had telemedicine before. Rothberg told The Times of Israel that the immunosuppressive drug his daughter takes is the result of an initiative that he and his wife sponsored 15 years ago in an attempt to help her. But Elana has learned from her father and mother, medical oncologist Bonnie Gould-Rothberg, that its worth solving a difficult problem if it will help someone. Sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), Not Impossibles Healthcare Breakthrough Award category recognizes innovations in healthcare. Jonathan Rothberg - Contact A previous version of this piece incorrectly described test specificity and sensitivity. Jonathan Rothberg: The Scientist-Entrepreneur (Health & Veritas Ep. 48) Detect is a highly accurate, fast, and easy molecular diagnostic COVID-19 test that does not require expensive lab equipment or a trained technician, providing trustworthy results in about an hour, he claims in a statement.