GeekWire Summit Health Tech Stage: The Power of Personalized Medicine
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Channel: GeekWire · 2018 · Science & Technology
A deep look at how technology plays a role in the increasingly common approach of personalizing treatments for individuals. Panelists include Jay Shendure, a professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington whose groundbreaking work in DNA sequencing is opening doors to new treatments of disease; Vineti co-founder Heidi Hagen, a pioneer in the field of personalized medicine and an expert in CAR-T therapies who has overseen more than 100,000 personalized doses of cell therapies; and Elizabeth Krakow, a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who is using statistical methods, complex data and machine learning to select highly personalized treatments in blood and bone marrow transplants. Moderated by Corey Schmid, general partner at Seven Peaks Ventures.
