Soma Lab
Simulated patients to scale medical education.
Soma Lab helps medical schools train students. Medical students practice on our AI simulations before they see live patients.
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Active Founders
Tiko Bdoyan
Founder at Soma Lab passionate about educational technology and the future of learning. Previously, I was a Machine Learning researcher and a varsity wrestler at the University of Chicago.
Vrishank Saini
Vrishank Saini is a University of Chicago neuroscience undergrad with a knack for blending neuroscience and computer science to drive innovation in medical education. As the founder of Bioscope Wellness and Soma Lab, he's not just studying cross-disciplinary subjects—he's applying them, evidenced by his development of a mental health app that garnered national coverage and over 120,000 downloads.
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Hi everyone, we’re Vrishank and Tigran, the team behind Soma Lab.
tl;dr: Soma Lab helps medical schools and hospitals train students and doctors. They practice on our AI simulations before seeing real patients.
The problem: Medical education can't scale with outdated methods to meet the growing doctor demand.
There’s a serious doctor shortage, and governments are responding by mandating increases in medical school seats. Schools are still relying on outdated, unscalable approaches like using actors to simulate patients one by one. Medical schools need solutions that can expand with this demand without losing quality—to fix this, we’re helping medical schools and hospitals scale clinical training with AI.
The Solution: Scalable clinical training with AI
Soma Lab scales clinical training with AI simulations that let students practice patient interactions, moving beyond the outdated methods. Our platform provides realistic, on-demand practice that adapts to the needs of medical schools, allowing them to train more students effectively without sacrificing quality. We’re solving the bottleneck in clinical education, making it scalable, flexible, and fit for the future.
The Team
We met at the University of Chicago after joining the same fraternity. Vrishank failed a clinical communications test and couldn’t afford the $9,000 tutor fee. So instead, we built an AI clinical communications coach. Vrishank's score went up to the top quartile, so we said screw it and launched the tool. In 3 weeks, we hit $5k MRR and 2.5k users. Seeing the impact this would have if applied to all of healthcare, we decided to build the AI infrastructure for medical education.
While in high school, Vrishank created a healthcare education app, which scaled to 120,000+ downloads in 6 months. Tigran was the lead machine learning researcher in a bioinformatics lab at the Luddy School of Informatics.
How You Can Help
We're out to change medical training for the better, and we could use your help! Pass this along to folks in healthcare—whether they're doctors, medical/nursing students, hospital admins, or anyone in the medical education field.