Precision Medicine News

Data-Driven Initiative to Support Genomics-Based Cancer Diagnostics

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The Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) has launched its Somatic Reference Samples (SRS) Initiative, which aims to develop and validate clinically relevant samples and public genomic datasets...

AI Precision Medicine Approaches Disorganized, Slowed by Gaps

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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

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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...

Machine Learning Models Predict Liver Cancer Treatment Response

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A proof-of-concept study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology shows that machine learning (ML) models can predict tumor recurrence in patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma...

Mount Sinai Strikes Genomics Partnership to Enhance Precision Medicine

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Personalized Predictive Models for Kidney Injury Outperform Traditional Methods

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A new study published in JAMA Network Open earlier this month showed that personalized artificial intelligence (AI) models for acute kidney injury (AKI) risk prediction, which use common EHR variables,...

OH Medical Center, Siemens Strike Personalized Medicine Partnership

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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

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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

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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...

MD Health System Launches Statewide Precision Medicine Research Initiative

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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...

AI Platform Recommends Lower, More Personalized Chemotherapy Doses

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

PA Health System Develops ML Model to Interpret Cancer Mutations

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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...

Swarm Learning Models to Predict Cancer Biomarkers Outperform Other AI

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A new study published in Nature explored swarm learning (SL) models as predictors of molecular alterations directly from standard histopathology images and hypothesized that these models could be a...