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[Shalini Gupta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shalinigupta05/) is the founder and CEO of [Asima Health](https://asimahealth.com/), a company pioneering accessible, blood-based cancer diagnostics. With a background in chemical engineering and a passion for translational healthcare, she is focused on making early cancer detection affordable, actionable, and widely available. Asima is developing an early, accurate and accessible multi-cancer detection test from a single blood draw that is faster, cheaper and better than industry standards. 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