Forbes January 19, 2022
Aayushi Pratap

In 2005, while training surgeons in Cambodia, Jonathan Ng, an experienced surgeon from Singapore, realized that many first generation Cambodian doctors couldn’t identify simple tumors. “I think to a large extent it’s a lack of training,” says the 33 year-old Ng. Missing out on tumors meant delayed diagnosis and poor survival chances for patients. In 2017, Ng, who took a break from his clinical practice to pursue an MBA in the U.S, realized that the problem of missing these early signs was not limited to Cambodia. Even in the U.S, doctors–especially in the gastroenterology space–often miss early signs depending on what their eyes caught or missed in colonoscopy videos.

To help solve this problem, Ng founded Iterative Scopes the...

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