Thank you for Making PMWC 2016 Silicon Valley a Success Story For All Attendees
It was truly a pleasure to host this year’s soldout PMWC. As Dr. Keith Yamamoto (UCSF) noted in his presentation, “precision medicine: audacious aspiration, worthy outcomes.” It was nice to see that we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to this aspiration as indications of worthy outcomes are […]
Celebrating Leaders of Change at PMWC 2016
They all have played and continue to play a tremendously critical role in shaping the human healthcare system, changing it from a general population approach to a personalized and patient-centered care model. For this reason, we honored these leaders for their outstanding contributions to medicine by awarding them the Pioneer or Luminary Awards at Personalized […]
Illumina Did It Again
Like a recurring theme, Illumina – when at JPMorgan Healthcare Conference -is contributing to some of the most clearly heard and most impactful announcements in the space. An obligatory new sequencer was released and along with that, the news of the launch of a new company named Grail focusing on liquid biopsy-based cancer diagnostics. Illumina […]
The Year of the Goat is Also The Year of Precision Medicine
The year 2015 is surely a success story for medicine and healthcare, starting early with the launch of the ambitious Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) by the President in January during his State of the Union address. Since then, this year has brought us a flurry of activities related to this prominent initiative. PMI’s goal is […]
