MMRF in the news
Kathy Giusti Appointed to President Obama’s
Precision Medicine Initiative Working Group
The White House announced the establishment of the Personalized Medicine
Initiative (PMI) working group to further its mission to improve care and speed the
development of treatments through a new model of patient-powered research.
Forbes publishes an op-ed by Kathy Giusti
In May, MMRF Founder and Executive Chairman Kathy Giusti authored an op-ed
for Forbes. It involves a topic that we are absolutely passionate about — the critical
need for data sharing and integration to accelerate precision medicine and cures,
not only for multiple myeloma but also for many cancers and other diseases.
MMRF presents awards at the 2014 ASH Annual Meeting
Each year, the MMRF recognizes exceptional work from its industry and academia
partners. This year the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Mount Sinai Health System
received the MMRF Innovator Award; Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University
and the University of Chicago received the MMRF Accelerator Award; and
Takeda Oncology received the MMRF Collaborator Award.
Kathy Giusti delivers keynote address at MassBio Annual Meeting
At the 2015 MassBio Annual Meeting in Cambridge in March, Kathy Giusti
focused on how collaborative research systems can inject speed and efficiency
into the drug discovery and development process in order to get treatments to
patients faster. “It is an honor to share with MassBio our innovative model and
hope that it accelerates progress in other cancers and diseases,” she said.
MMRF and GNS Healthcare announce precision medicine collaboration
In January, the MMRF and GNS announced a collaboration to speed the discovery
of innovative treatments for multiple myeloma through precision medicine. The
effort will combine genomic and clinical data from the MMRF CoMMpass Study
SM
with GNS machine learning platforms and rapid computer simulations to provide
a broader set of individualized treatment protocols.
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