Precision Medicine

AI Precision Medicine Approaches Disorganized, Slowed by Gaps

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Rutgers have concluded that artificial intelligence (AI)-based approaches to precision medicine are limited or slowed by various structural issues, such as disorganization, data...

Researchers Advance Cancer Drug-Matching, Personalized Medicine

by Shania Kennedy

A research team from Clemson University has created an open-source model designed to help medical researchers build scalable prediction models that can represent extensive cellular interactions and...

Mount Sinai Strikes Genomics Partnership to Enhance Precision Medicine

by Shania Kennedy

Mount Sinai Health System has launched a genetic sequencing project with the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC), part of New York-based biotechnology company Regeneron, which will enroll 1 million...

DNA Prediction Tools May Reveal Insights Into Fighting Genetic Diseases

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms capable of predicting the role and structure of DNA’s regulatory elements, which could...

PA Hospital Launches Data Platform for Pediatric Cancer Drug Development

by Shania Kennedy

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has announced the launch of a new analytics platform that will use pediatric cancer data to streamline and accelerate cancer drug development. With...

Clinical Decision Support Tool Provides Effective Precision Medicine Guidance

by Shania Kennedy

A study published this week in Nature Communications shows that an automated clinical decision support tool for genetic disease diagnosis and treatment can provide accurate results and disease...

TX Health System Launches Population Health, Genomics Initiative

by Shania Kennedy

Houston, Texas-based Memorial Hermann Health System has announced a partnership with population genomics and viral surveillance company, Helix to launch an initiative focused on enhancing population...

OH Medical Center, Siemens Strike Personalized Medicine Partnership

by Shania Kennedy

The Ohio State University (OSU) Wexner Medical Center and Siemens Healthineers have struck a partnership focused on advancing personalized medicine and improving access to high quality, cost-effective...

Johns Hopkins Awarded $10M for Genomics, Immunotherapy Research

by Shania Kennedy

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research and the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (BKI) awarded $10 million to The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to accelerate groundbreaking genomics...

Researchers Develop Algorithm, Assay to Assess Genome Structure

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center have developed a new assay and corresponding algorithm that allows them to study the three-dimensional structure of the human...

“All of Us” Program Expands COVID-19, SDOH Data Available to Researchers

by Shania Kennedy

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us Research Program has announced that health data from 20,000 people who have had SARS-CoV-2 is now available to researchers in the US, expanding...

MD Health System Launches Statewide Precision Medicine Research Initiative

by Shania Kennedy

The University of Maryland Medicine, the joint enterprise of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), the University of Maryland Medical Center, and the University of Maryland Medical...

Using Real-World Data to Improve Cancer Care Delivery, Precision Medicine

by Shania Kennedy

As efforts to reduce and eventually eliminate cancer, such as President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot, gain traction, providers are tasked with finding ways to improve cancer care delivery and research. As a result, the healthcare industry...

AI Platform Recommends Lower, More Personalized Chemotherapy Doses

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have shown that that an artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to recommend optimal chemotherapy doses from cancer patients achieved...

CDC Awards $215M to Advance Cancer Moonshot Goals

by Shania Kennedy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced $215 million in funding awards for 86 recipients under three national cancer programs: the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early...

NCCN Guideline Adherence Lowers Total Cost of Care for Cancer Patients

by Shania Kennedy

Adherence to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines during treatment correlates to lower total costs of care (TCOC) for breast and colon cancer patients, according to findings...

NY Cancer Center Develops Machine-Learning Sensor to Sniff Out Cancer

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have created a tool that can sniff for and identify cancer in blood samples using machine learning. Like the human nose, the tool uses...

New Center to Combine Engineering, Precision Medicine

by Mark Melchionna

Intending to combine engineering and medicine, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai formed a collaboration that will work to find treatments for...

How Big Data Analytics Can Support Preventive Health

by Shania Kennedy

The healthcare sector is an increasingly complex system that incorporates various stakeholders outside of clinicians and patients. This complexity generates significant amounts of data across the continuum of care. To promote health...

PA Health System Develops ML Model to Interpret Cancer Mutations

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a machine-learning (ML) platform to help clinicians identify cancer mutations and interpret their potential significance...