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- 01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map
Health (NIH) undertook the Human Genome Project, an effort to map the extraordinarily intricate chemical composition of the human genome. Scientists have long believed that understanding the vast genetic code underlying all human life...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
tools, expediting the time frame and accuracy of results. Using genomics and machine learning, Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) and Aikili Biosystems aim to save lives. “A common reaction to our venture is that it is ‘ambitious.’ Clearly our...
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Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
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Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
Current issues in health care; ranging from finance and patients' rights to genomics and personalized medicine; were among the subjects discussed last November at the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association's second annual conference. Held...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Summing Up the New Students
Ave. that it sunk in.” Levana Sani Jakarta, Indonesia CV: Research officer, Genome Institute of Singapore “My background is in biochemistry, so I took the HBX CORe course over the summer to build my finance skills. I imagined myself...
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Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
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Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. The MMRF built the first multi-center myeloma tissue bank, became the first to sequence the myeloma genome, and launched the MMRF CoMMpass Study to generate a critical mass of...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) was in her early 30s when she grew curious about her chances of having children one day. “I didn’t want to wake up and learn that my opportunity had passed,” says Tariyal, then a genomics researcher with a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Institute of MIT and Harvard to further genomic research, developing a contest that aimed to improve the benchmark algorithm set by Broad scientists, which it did, 14 times faster. Lakhani explains that when structuring an experiment, he...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Reinventing Radio Days
musicologists to codify pieces of music, ranging from classical to unknown indie bands, according to 450 distinct musical characteristics. This digital “Music Genome Project” matches the musical “DNA” of pieces listeners say they like...
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- 03 Nov 2016
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17 Ventures Join the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab
ventures (along with their Harvard affiliations) joining the Life Lab are: Akous – College, HBS, Blavatnik Fellow Aldatu Biosciences – GSAS, HSPH Beacon Genomics – HMS BiomaRx – HMS change:WATER Labs, Inc. – College DayZero Diagnostics –...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
draft of the Human Genome Project, we launched the Biomedical Sciences Initiative here." As Singapore set out on this journey, Yeo made sure that plenty of funding was available to nurture and sustain the new ventures. From 2000 to 2005,...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as...
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Judith A. Ross
- 15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
research presentations illustrated how business, science, and technology are addressing societal challenges: SEAS professor Yiling Chen discussed the design of social computing systems, HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani explained the use of crowdsourcing for View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
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For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
case on the biotechnology firm Biogen, where a seemingly innocuous decision to license databases of new proteins discovered through genomic research wound up completely transforming the company's product-development process. As Vietor led...
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Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2003
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The Next Big Thing
center recently established in Cambridge to advance genetics-based medicine. Summers, Vest, and Lander all remarked on the promise the genomic revolution holds for society, the need to facilitate its emergence and commercialize its...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution
How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth, has an unusually accessible style and layout that points to the heart of Enriquez’s mission. “I don’t want people to be afraid of science,” he explains. “I want...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
consortium has produced a research road map initially emphasizing the Alzheimer’s Genome Project, which exclusively focuses on identifying the remaining genes believed responsible for the disease (four have already been identified), and...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
beginnings of the genomic research industry and all the companies that grew —and are still growing —from that. It was also the time when the concept of diagnostic related groups DRGs was introduced. DRGs essentially redefined health-care...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Besides reading all the medical journals, Watson could inform doctors of when certain drug trials began and when others ended; it could also sequence a genome and find important gene...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page