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 Image: Courtesy subject. Illustration: Chloe Krammel When Ran Ma told her parents she was dropping out of her master s program in business administration to work on a sock prototype for diabetic patients, their reaction wasn t exactly encouraging. My dad said, We re not going to talk until you figure out your life,  says Ma.  I don t think my parents understood what I was doing. Ma, who had left a biotech master s program to pursue her business degree, had avoided a career in medicine despite coming from three generations of physicians. While working as an engineer at Northwestern University, she focused on a project involving a biomask that aimed to heal the burns of wounded veterans, which led her to create her own device to solve a specific medical problem. She had always been bothered that most wearable devices from Silicon Valley were predominantly fitness-related and aimed at the young and healthy, rather than the elderly and chronically ill. 

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