Stephanie Kuku, MD is a surgical oncologist turned health technology leader who currently serves as Chief Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Officer at Conceivable Life Sciences, a New York based startup using robotics and Physical AI to make IVF treatment more reliable and more affordable. Across more than 15 years specializing in women's cancers within Britain's National Health Service and HCA Healthcare, and later as a senior advisor to the WHO and a due diligence lead across more than 50 AI and deeptech startups, Stephanie came to feel that the problems standing between her and the care she wanted to deliver could not be solved from inside the system alone. That conviction led her to step away from full-time clinical practice, work she now describes not as a departure from medicine but as a continuation of it by other means.

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Read Stephanie's full Pioneer Spotlight here

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The key takeaways from Stephanie's spotlight are:

1. Real change sometimes requires stepping outside the system you want to fix
2. Patient-first thinking scales into company-first values
3. Find your passion first, then find your unique selling point