Nov 30, 2012, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | BOSTON—Receiving the 2012 Leadership in Personalized Medicine Award from the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), Randy Scott reflected on his success as the founder and former CEO of Genomic Health, but also looked ahead to new opportunities with his latest venture, InVitae Corporation.  

Nov 30, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

HHMI | The Trustees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have elected Professor Erin K. O’Shea, Ph.D., now a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Harvard University, as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer.

Nov 30, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

eWeek | Amazon Web Services launched a cloud data warehouse earlier in the week. Redshift is a petabyte-scale data warehouse service that provides a fast and powerful solution that increases the speed of query performance.

Nov 30, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | The Skeptical Outsider | You know scientists are getting desperate when National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers publicly boast that their approach is not limited to the realm of rational behavior. Heck, as long as funding is infinite, why not keep going back to re-drill the same dry holes hoping dumb luck will produce a gusher? 

Nov 29, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Stanford Daily | Stanford University is launching the Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics. The Center will reportedly specialize in the analysis of big data with a smaller emphasis on lab work.

Nov 29, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nov 29, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | An analyst with Numis Securities in London has reiterated a $2-billion valuation for Oxford Nanopore, even before the sequencing company has commercially launched, based on its assessment of the medical market and an evaluation of one of the British sequencing company’s major investors, the publicly traded IP Group. 

Nov 28, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Rockefeller University physician scientist Robert Darnell, son of Lasker Award winner James Darnell, is the newly appointed scientific director of the New York Genome Center (NYGC). Darnell gives his first in-depth interview to Bio-IT World editor Kevin Davies on his reasons for taking the job and his initial goals for the high-profile center.

Nov 27, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

GEN | Getting the big data is the easy part, making sense of it is the challenge for life sciences. Guy Cavet, vice president of life sciences at Kaggle, a platform for data science competitions, argues for not just big data, but smarter use of rich data.

Nov 27, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Nature News | The fight for Complete Genomics is not over. BGI and Illumina have both submitted letters arguing that their offer is a better fit to the Complete Genomics board.

Nov 27, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Guardian | Liverpool University has launched a free app for doctors that records what symptoms their patient has and the treatment they provided. Collect enough of these together, from around the world, and you get real-time global disease surveillance.

Nov 27, 2012, 07:00 AM by Michael Croft

Xconomy | Where are the biotech startups for 2012? Xconomy finds them few and far between. Listing "exciting" startups as those with a big idea and at least $5 million in their pockets, Luke Timmerman comes up with only 28.

Nov 26, 2012, 10:00 AM by Michael Croft

The Telegraph | Novartis has arranged a crisis meeting for British stakeholders in London today in a bid to "streamline Britain’s 'haphazard' approach to medical research and development (R&D)."

Nov 26, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

HHMI | The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is expanding its focus--into film. HHMI today announced the launch of Tangled Bank Studios, a film and media production company for science documentaries.

Nov 26, 2012, 09:00 AM by Michael Croft

Datanami | Panasas believes high performance network attached storage (NAS) can offer some rather appealing features for the MapReduce world.

Nov 21, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World  | Adaptive clinical trials might be globally embraced if the current preoccupation with fixed trial designs was viewed as an “engineering problem” requiring a lot of talk and teamwork between adaptive design experts, said Michael Krams, MD, vice president & head of the neurology franchise at Johnson & Johnson (J&J).  

Nov 20, 2012, 14:00 PM by Michael Croft

Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World has announced a pair of renowned keynote speakers and an exciting panel of life science CIOs among the upcoming attractions at its 2013 Conference & Expo, to be held in Boston next Spring (April 9-11, 2013).

Nov 20, 2012, 12:00 PM by Michael Croft

Nov 20, 2012, 11:00 AM by Michael Croft

Health Affairs Blog | Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launched the Million Veteran Program (MVP) in May of last year, and the program now includes more than 100,000 participants. MVP is a mega-database that will hold genomic and clinical information for future studies about veterans.

Nov 19, 2012, 08:00 AM by Michael Croft

Spoonful of Medicine | Brigham and Women's $100,000 BRIght Futures Prize was awarded to clinical geneticist Robert Green and his project to explore how best to integrate genomic sequencing into routine medical care for healthy newborns. The contest presented three well-vetted finalists to the public and let the winner be chosen by an online vote.