Q: Tell us more about your organization/company. What patient population are you serving and which services are you specializing in? A: Natera offers a host of proprietary genetic testing services to inform physicians who care for pregnant women, researchers in cancer, including biopharmaceutical companies, and genetic...
Q: What need is Battelle addressing? A: Battelle is building classic and artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to rapidly screen DNA sequences for pathogenic functions. Function-based screening targets the pathogenic processes or virulence factors associated with a sequence. This approach provides advantages over simply matching to...
Q: Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have sent vast waves across healthcare, even fueling an active discussion of whether AI doctors will eventually replace human physicians in the future. Do you believe that human physicians will be replaced by machines in the foreseeable future? A: No, I...
Q: What products and services do Horizon Discovery offer to address the needs of the precision medicine research community? A: Data from genomic screens are enabling the right drug to be prescribed to the right person at the right time. This is the essence of personalized...
Q: Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have sent vast waves across healthcare, even fueling an active discussion of whether AI doctors will eventually replace human physicians in the future. Do you believe that human physicians will be replaced by machines in the foreseeable future? What are...
Q: What need is Panaceutics addressing? A: One of the key barriers to making precision/personalized wellness and healthcare products is the contradictory goal of manufacturing individualized products on a large scale. Meeting demand for personalized products can be expensive and logistically challenging....
Q: Genomic medicine is entering more hospitals and bringing with it non-invasive technology that can be used to better target and treat diseases. What are some key milestones that contributed to this trend? A: The milestones in my mind include the first FDA clearance of Next...
The use of new technologies can provide breakthrough benefits for both patients and providers. However, with increased sharing comes increased risks to the security and privacy of patient data. Currently data is being accumulated across many organizations and initiatives but is often either siloed or...
Q: The Nobel Price in Medicine was awarded recently to James Allison and Tasuku for their work on unleashing the body’s immune system to attack cancer, a breakthrough that has led to an entirely new class of drugs and brought lasting remissions to many patients...
Q: Genomic medicine is entering more hospitals and bringing with it non-invasive technology that can be used to better target and treat diseases. What are some key milestones that contributed to this trend? A: After several years of the promise of precision medicine and abundant clinical...
