• 2024 Innovative Practices Winners in Informatics, Collaboration, Clinical IT, Genomics

    Bio-IT World | Bio-IT World today announced the 2024 Innovative Practices Awards winners. Six projects were honored. Companies driving the winning entries included AstraZeneca, DNAnexus, Pistoia Alliance, Regeneron, Tempus, and UK Biobank.

    Mar 19, 2024

  • Five Global Teams Tackling Cancer Grand Challenges

    Bio-IT World | Cancer Grand Challenges—a global funding initiative co-founded by the National Cancer Institute and Cancer Research UK—has announced five new global teams selected to each receive up to $25M over five years to take on four of cancer’s toughest challenges.

    Mar 14, 2024

  • Citizen-Driven Research Aids Development Of Digital Biomarkers For ALS

    Bio-IT World | When it comes to research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), every stakeholder—most especially patients—knows time is of the essence. From diagnosis to death, life expectancy from the debilitating neuromuscular disease can be two years or less.

    Mar 13, 2024

  • Biology-Based Diagnostic Criteria For Parkinson’s Disease Research

    Bio-IT World | Scientists from a trio of countries are calling for a new, more comprehensive way of classifying Parkinson’s disease for diagnostic research purposes that considers an individual’s biology. The disorder might thereby be detected before patients have any symptoms, as is now the case for cancer and diabetes.

    Mar 12, 2024