Focus Area: Predictive BioAnalytics

Technologies 1

• Using Systems Biology to Find and Test New Drugs Faster
  The pharmaceutical industry is infamous for big numbers: it takes 10-15 years and can cost over $2 billion to bring a new drug from the lab to the market. Up to 6 of those years and $1 billion are spent in laborious preclinical trials to identify and validate new potential drug compounds, and much of...

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  Identifying “ugly ducklings” to catch skin cancer earlier
  February 16, 2021
• Awards
  
  A Year in Review: 2020
  December 17, 2020
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  Learning the language of sugars
  October 28, 2020

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  Using deep learning to detect cancerous skin lesions
  Melanoma is a very severe cancer that is often diagnosed too late to save patients’ lives, and most people do not regularly visit a dermatologist for skin exams. Early-stage identification of suspicious pigmented lesions (SPLs), ideally by primary care providers, could lead to improved melanoma prognosis. Researchers at the Wyss Institute and MIT have developed...