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March 6, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Public-Private Partnerships in Health AI

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Pencina is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics and the vice dean for data science in the Duke University School of Medicine. .” The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, March 8, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern. Join the online meeting.

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CancerVar: A New Bioinformatics Tool Developed for Clinical Interpretation of Cancer Mutations

XTalks

Millions of somatic cancer variants have been identified due to precision medicine and next-generation sequencing (NGS). On Saturday, researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have announced that they developed and launched a new bioinformatics software tool called CancerVar (cancer variant interpretation).

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February 21, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Virtual Monitoring in Decentralized Clinical Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Hernandez is the executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) and professor of medicine and vice dean in the Duke University School of Medicine. He also serves as co-principal investigator of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Coordinating Center. Join the online meeting.

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Mason researchers to provide bioinformatic analysis

Scienmag

Virginia Espina, Research Associate Professor, Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, received $21,000 from Baylor Research Institute for a project in which Mason researchers are providing biostatistics and bioinformatic analysis for integrating multi-omic data sets from a breast cancer cohort.

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February 19, 2024: Virtual Monitoring in Decentralized Trials, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Hernandez is the executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) and professor of medicine and vice dean in the Duke University School of Medicine. He also serves as co-principal investigator of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Coordinating Center. Join the online meeting.

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Bioinformatic exploration of perivascular space discovers 24 genomic risk loci

Medical Xpress

An international team of 79 researchers have collaborated on a study published in Nature Medicine to delve into perivascular spaces (PVS), a poorly understood artifact seen in magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral small vessel disease, a leading cause of stroke and dementia.

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Absci and M2GEN partner to expedite cancer drug development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Absci has collaborated with bioinformatics firm M2GEN to expedite the development of new cancer medicines. Absci stated that this collaboration combines AI drug creation technology and oncology bioinformatics, thereby reducing the time and cost of cancer drug development.