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WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON

Closing gaps in public health awareness

The LymeX Visible Voices Prize is a $250,000 competition to improve understanding of Lyme and tick-borne disease diagnosis.

Learn about the prize

Advancing in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing

A new NASA TechLeap challenge seeks payloads that can be manipulated by a robotic arm in low Earth orbit.

Learn about the challenge

Simulating the future to build supply chain resilience

How we designed a simulation event to translate market expertise into future-ready investment strategies.

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Launching nanosatellite solutions

Three MagQuest teams are collecting geomagnetic data for the World Magnetic Model.

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Building the future of K-12 education

How the Learning Landscapes Challenge developed systems and elevated networks for connected, cohesive learning experiences.

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Advancing breakthrough neuromodulation therapies

How the Neuromod Prize helped innovators translate neuroscience solutions and bring new hope to millions of patients.

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Preparing CTE students for AI-driven careers

The Your AI Horizons Challenge invited high schools to propose AI solutions that reimagine traditional ways of working.

Meet the winning teams

Accelerating kidney care innovation for a changing climate

How the KidneyX Sustainability Prize surfaced viable solutions for making dialysis treatment more resilient and resource-efficient.

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Developing partnerships to advance novel diagnostics

How the LymeX Diagnostics Prize is convening industry, philanthropy, and government stakeholders — and bringing new solutions to market.

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Thought Leadership

Lab Report

News, analysis, and timely truth-telling.

Nowcasting: Architecting our future

Building on our series to assert concrete positions on what America must build, invest in, or redesign across health and wellbeing, education and work, and design and infrastructure.

Exploring a public health agenda for the 21st century

Luminary Labs Founding Partner Sara Holoubek named a UC Berkeley School of Public Health Impact Fellow.

Janna Gilbert named CEO of Luminary Labs

Leadership transition supports the company’s long-term growth and sustainable expansion strategy.

Select Clients

We serve as thought partners to leaders tasked with going beyond business as usual. When it’s time to execute, we help make it real.

Corporate

  • AstraZeneca
  • Celgene
  • Janssen
  • Merck & Co., Inc.
  • Novartis
  • Pfizer
  • Sanofi
  • Roche
  • Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Nonprofit

  • American Society of Nephrology
  • Bezos Earth Fund
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  • Grand Victoria Foundation
  • Heritage Provider Network
  • Humanity United
  • Joyce Foundation
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Schmidt Futures
  • Siegel Family Endowment
  • Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation
  • TEDMED
  • Tulsa Innovation Labs
  • Walton Family Foundation

Government

  • Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • NASA
  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  • National Institutes of Health
  • U.S. Coast Guard
  • U.S. Department of Education
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • U.S. Food & Drug Administration