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Big Data Is Driving Personalized Medicine Revolution

12-Nov-2015

Key points from article :

Drugs can be expensive, difficult to research, hard to get approved.

Most drugs don’t work on large parts of the population.

6 ways big data is helping:

Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program

National Cancer Institute-Molecular Analysis For Therapy Choice (NCI-Match) Trial

Wisdom Study – are mammograms the best way to detect breast cancer

Tanner Project – looking for N’s-of-1

Stand Up To Cancer And Melanoma Research Alliance Dream Team

Arthritis Trials

The study was published in the Nature journal.

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Laura Esserman

Director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center at the UCSF.

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Institute for cancer research

Nature

Scientific journal covering research from a variety of academic disciplines, mostly in science and technology

Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Tufts CSDD)

Academic nonprofit think tank at Tufts University dedicated to researching drug development.

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