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GA4GH Mentions

Microsoft Brings Scalability, Apps to Broad and Verily's Terra Bioinformatics Platform

January 21 • GenomeWeb, USA

Terra has been built on the principles of being open-source and standards-based, including standards set by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), of which the Broad is one of three host institutions.

Genomics and Health News

2021 Will Bring AI, Social Determinants of Health into Focus

January 22 • HealthITAnalytics, USA

Beyond COVID-19, where will biopharma focus in 2021?

January 22 • FierceBiotech, USA

Henry Ford Opens Facility to Advance Cancer Precision Medicine

January 22 • HealthITAnalytics, USA

Aneesh Chopra: It’s the people problem that remains at the core of cyberattacks

January 21 • MedCity News, USA

Biden's COVID-19 plan depends on a data-driven approach for efficacy, equity

January 21 • Healthcare IT News, USA

Fast-spreading COVID variant can elude immune responses

January 21 • Nature, UK

New studies clarify which genes may raise breast cancer risk

Jan 21 • Independent, UK

AI database used to improve treatment of UK COVID-19 patients

Jan 20 • Healthcare IT News, USA

Biden’s science adviser, COVID reinfections and vaccine tests

Jan 20 • Nature, UK

NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins: Connecting The Dots From The Human Genome Project To The COVID-19 Vaccine

Jan 20 • Forbes, USA

Geisinger research identifies genetic risk factor for stroke

Jan 19 • Geisinger, USA

MethylationToActivity: a deep learning framework for epigenetic research

Jan 19 • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA

New HHS money to help expand vaccine data sharing

January 19 • Healthcare IT News, USA

New computational tool reliably differentiates between cancer and normal cells from single-cell RNA-sequencing data

Jan 18 • MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Upcoming Events

ICPerMed Conference 2020: Personalised Medicine – From Vision to Practice

February 25 – 26 • Virtual

Genomics of Rare Disease

March 22 – 24 • Virtual