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Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabth Holmes, born February 3, 1984, is an American former biotechnology entrepreneur who founded Theranos in 2003 at the age of 19. Holmes was born in Washington, D.C. to her dad Christian Holmes an entrepreneur who started an energy company called Enron then moving to the government agency USAID and her mom Noel, a Congressional committee staffer (source c).
Holmes attended Stanford University in 2002 where she studied chemical engineering and worked in a laboratory as a student researcher in the School of Engineering (source a). At the end of freshman year, she worked in the Genome Institute of Singapore; at the lab she collected samples of blood with syringes to test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) (source b). Seeing the great amount of blood needed to test for this diseased prompted Holmes to take action and seek to improve blood testing processes (source b).
