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...
This year, the fields of sequencing and immunotherapy had hot announcements at the 35th JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. And we have exciting sessions planned as follow-ups on these themes at next week’s PMWC 2017 Silicon Valley conference. Sequencing Many of the established companies in the space –...
Q: First off congratulations on your new job at 10x Genomics. Can you tell us more about the role you have at 10x Genomics? A: Thank you! It is great to be at a cutting-edge technology company. My role at 10x is to lead the applications...
Precision medicine in concert with innovative and disruptive technologies, is creating a mountain of (big) data, moving into the clinic and finding wider and wider acceptance across hospitals and healthcare networks, based on its promise and potential for enhancing patient care via improved diagnostics and...
