Passionate physician/entrepreneur with the experience of medical device development aiming to establish diagnosis and treatment with a reliable biomarker for psychiatric conditions. Kazu Okuda has been feeling the considerable differences in patient outcomes due to differences in psychiatrists‘ skills. He set up Universal Brain to provide access for better psychiatric care for patients.
After graduating from Kyushu University, he received clinical training at the University of Tokyo Hospital and joined a medical device AI startup. While in the office of the CEO, he raised $20 million and conducted clinical research with university hospitals. The medtech product has been approved for marketing in Japan and is covered by national health insurance.