Dr. Francis S. Collins, Director of the NIH has advised President Obama on prominent health initiatives, such as the BRAIN and Cancer Moonshot initiatives and the Precision Medicine Initiative. He also played a vital role in the multibillion-dollar effort to sequence the human genome, one of...
Q: What is the firm’s approach to working with Precision Medicine start up companies? A: At Third Rock Ventures, our sole focus is to create great companies based on bold ideas that meet at the intersection of science, strategy, business and medicine. Our approach is based...
Pioneer in Business Leadership to Advance Innovative Models and Speed Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine [caption id="attachment_3773" align="aligncenter" width="233"] Kathy Giusti, with Robert Kraft, Jonathan Kraft and Dean Nitin Nohria at Harvard Business School. Picture taken by Evgenia Eliseeva[/caption] Can you tell us a little bit about the...
Announcing the Luminary and Pioneer Awardees honored at PMWC 2017 Duke! Each of these highly revered PMWC awardees has played a significant role in transforming health care by advancing precision medicine in the clinic. They accomplished this through their many technological and scientific contributions and their ongoing...
The majority of patients in the US (80-85%) receive their cancer care in community or regional cancer centers, while only 15-20% are treated at academic medical centers. This has significant impact on how patients are treated by practicing physicians, and whether precision medicine is applied...
1. First off congratulations on your new position at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Q: Can you tell us more about your new role at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and how you’re growing and expanding its genomic medicine program? A: The new role at NCH is extremely exciting in that...
Amazingly, the life expectancy in the Western world will exceed 90 years by 2030 – a number that is based on data from the World Health Organization recently published in the Lancet. This prognosis is in sync with the progress of steadily improving healthcare we have...
Whether it is your normal microbiota or a headline grabbing pathogen - We will cover them at PMWC 2017 Duke CME credit available In recent years, we seem to face a major epidemic viral outbreak each year, whether it is Zika, Ebola, or the Corona virus MERS-CoV. The...
We are excited to launch the first East Coast Precision Medicine World Conference, the 12th PMWC, at Duke University on May 24-25. We are witnessing an explosion of biomedical technologies that are spurring exciting capabilities and initiatives to enable the translation of precision medicine into improvements...
PMWC 2017 Silicon Valley, attended by over 1,300 conference participants from 26 countries, showcased 290 presenters in four parallel tracks and 66 exhibitions. See photos and videos from the conference. As Dr. Euan Ashley (Stanford Health Care) succinctly noted in his opening words: “To state the...
