A Scottish clinical and translational informatics company has announced it is part of a consortium selected to deliver a digital research environment based on its AnalytiXagility informatics platform to one …
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As part of President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), the National Institutes of Health will award $142 million over five years to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, to establish the …
NIH appoints Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D., to lead the National Library of Medicine
Intermountain Healthcare and the Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC) have established a new collaborative research program..
Personal Genome Diagnostics names industry veteran Douglas Ward as Chief Executive Officer
Intermountain Healthcare and the Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC) have established a new collaborative research program..
HudsonAlpha Foundation establishes neurological disease research fund
Huntsville, Ala. — The HudsonAlpha Foundation has established the Memory and Mobility (M&M) Fund for neurological disease research. The M&M fund will support HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology’s current and future …
Intermountain Precision Genomics and Stanford Genome Technology Form Clinical Genomics Partnership
Intermountain Healthcare and the Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC) have established a new collaborative research program..
Second Genome Secures $42.6 Million in Series B Financing Led by Pfizer Venture Investments and Roche Venture Fund
Financing to expand the Second Genome Microbiome Discovery Platform and accelerate the clinical development of pipeline programs South San Francisco, Calif., April 20, 2016 – Second Genome, Inc., a privately-held …
Dr Belinda Quinn appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Precision Medicine Catapult
19 April 2016, Cambridge, UK – The Precision Medicine Catapult, the UK’s innovation centre for precision medicine, announces today it has appointed Dr Belinda Quinn as its new Chief Executive …
The first person to be saved by whole genome sequencing
Huntsville, Ala. — The story of a groundbreaking genomic medicine case led by HudsonAlpha researchers is now available. “One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn …
“Liquid biopsy” blood test accurately detects key genetic mutations in most common form of lung cancer, study finds
BOSTON – A simple blood test can rapidly and accurately detect mutations in two key genes in non-small cell lung tumors, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and other institutions report …
R-Biopharm AG and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany enter into collaboration on developing and launching Companion Diagnostics
Darmstadt, Germany, March 22, 2016 – R-Biopharm AG announced today it has entered into an agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany to collaborate on developing companion diagnostics. The agreement constitutes …
£6m for Scottish Genomes Partnership
Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health, Jamie Hepburn has announced a £6 million investment in the Scottish Genomes Partnership (SGP) The SGP is a collaboration of Scottish Universities and …
Findacure says it could save NHS £m with drug repurposing
2,200 babies will be born in the UK on 29th February, of which 30 will die of a rare disease before they are five years old*. UK charity Findacure believes that …
Further £250m in funding for genomics in the UK
Further £250m in funding for genomics in the UK – and cancer patients being recruited for 100K Genome Project Across England patients with cancer are now being recruited to the …
Kraft Family Foundation Pledges $20m to Create the Kraft Endowment for Advancing Precision Medicine
Kraft Family Foundation, Inc., has pledged $20 million to Harvard Business School (HBS) to create the Kraft Endowment for Advancing Precision Medicine. The pledge, which is part of Harvard University’s …
Northern Ireland Joins the 100,000 Genomes Project
Health Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, Simon Hamilton, today announced £3.3m investment to create a Northern Ireland Genomic Medicine Centre that will provide rare disease patients with a much …
Initial six centres of excellence in UK PM network named Teams in Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford
The Precision Medicine Catapult, the UK’s innovation centre for precision medicine, announces today that Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford will be the initial locations for its regional centres …