Siew-Veena Sahi, MD

CEO & Co-Founder @ Testmate Health

About

My mission is to re-write the norms for sexual health testing to make it easy & accessible for all - regardless of gender, geography or sexuality. At Testmate Health, we develop low-cost, inclusive & accurate disposable tests to detect common STIs immediately from home - which do not currently exist today. I am a creative thinker, embodying my global perspectives as a half-Indian, half-Singaporean Chinese, Swiss & British medical doctor, public health researcher & entrepreneurship affecionado to lead Testmate Health to fulfil its mission. I am committed to improving minority representation in entrepreneurship & startups. So, feel free to reach out anytime if a coffee or chat can support you in that journey :)

Country

Switzerland

City

Lausanne Metropolitan Area

Industry

Biotechnology

Skill

Research, PowerPoint, Teamwork, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, English, Microsoft Excel, French, Global Health, Foreign Languages, Chinese, Project Management, Teaching, Time Management, Data Analysis, Statistics, Spanish

Experience

CEO & Co-Founder

Testmate Health

2021-6 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Testmate Health is an early stage healthcare startup focused on low cost, high quality & accurate at home self-testing for STIs. Our team brings together expertise in sexual health, microbiology and diagnostics to bring our mission of making testing for sexual health easy and accessible to life. STI rates have soared in recent years, partly due to a reduction in access to easy & affordable testing. Yet, it is asymptomatic in nearly 80% of women, and causes preventable complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Testmate Health is developing the first OTC urine home test for common STIs, that can be performed anywhere, at anytime, providing PCR quality results in minutes. Our platform test kit can be adapted to detect any DNA or RNA sequence, STIs are just the beginning!

MassChallenge Round 1 & 2 Judge

MassChallenge Switzerland

2020-2 - Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Renens, Vaud, Switzerland

Medical Doctor

NHS

2017-8 - 2021-6 · 3 yrs 11 mos

London, United Kingdom

Merit for Clinical Excellence Chair of Junior Doctor's Forum Clinical Teaching Fellow

Education

Queen Mary University of London

Medicine

2011 - 2017 · 6 yrs

Queen Mary University of London

2014 - 2015 · 1 yr

Awarded a First Class for dissertation in "Diagnostic Test Accuracy for Chlamydia Trachomatis Infections in an Asymptomatic Pregnant Population". This was work undertaken as part of the WHO workstream in conjunction with Professor Khalid Khan, then editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. This was published in Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, paper titled "Accuracy of tests used to detect infection with Chlamydia trachomatis in asymptomatic pregnant women: a systematic review".