Genomics Aditya Bhattacharji manages Eurasia Group‘s healthcare analysis and Kevin Allison is the director of geo-technology. Together they look at last week’s shock revelation of two CRISPR* babies who were born in China and the added tensions this might cause with the USA. Aside from the immediate implications for US-China strategic competition, the…
BIOTECH This week the NHS becomes the first in the world to routinely offer access to breakthrough genomic medicine. Today (1st October 2018) marks a huge stride in ‘precision medicine’ in the UK as the NHS begins to offer gene therapies tailored to individual patients. Hospitals across England have connected to specialist…
UK Offering genomic sequencing and analysis, Congenica operates in the exciting world of genomic diagnosis, with a particular focus on rare diseases. Its CEO David Atkins describes the potential of Congenica’s platform and talks commercialisation. Can you please start by introducing Congenica to our international readers? “As well as disease diagnosis,…
Portugal Coimbra Genomics aims to make genetics easier. The company has developed Elsie, a digital platform that helps make better individualized clinical decisions. They have recently been recognized as the ‘second biggest promise in European e–Health’. Bruno Soares shares the Coimbra Genomics story, plans and exciting news for 2018, and how Elsie…
Pharma In May 2018, PharmaBoardroom’s readers were asked what they felt were the biggest new sources of disruption to the traditional pharma industry today. Options included 3D Bioprinting, blockchain storage, genomics and artificial intelligence. 3D Bioprinting As Figure 1 (below) shows, 11 percent of our survey respondents felt that 3D bioprinting…
UK Sir John Chisholm, executive chair of Genomics England – a company set up and owned by the UK Department of Health to run the 100,000 Genomes Project, which aims to sequence 100,000 genomes from NHS patients with a rare disease and their families, and patients with cancer – discusses the…
Canada Marc LePage, president and CEO of Genome Canada describes the early days of the organization and talks modern day plans, such as personalized diagnostics for rare diseases, international alliances and genomic data collection and sharing. Marc, you helped pioneer the creation of Genome in 2000 and led Génome Québec…
Taiwan Daniel Huang, CEO of Genomics Bioscience, Taiwan’s largest commercial genome sequencing company, and Chairman of Pharmigene, a global leader in the development and manufacturing of genetic tests, documents how he plans to leverage the combined capacity and expertise of these two companies to form strategic alliances with leading pharmaceutical companies…
Taiwan Johnsee Lee, founder, CEO, and president of Personal Genomics and its sister company Quark Biosciences, provides insights into the company’s proprietary Optoelectronic Sequencing (OES) technology, which can perform whole genome sequencing thousand times faster than existing technologies and increase read length twentyfold in comparison to sequencing products currently on the…
biotechnology The genomic revolution represents a before and after in the field of medicine. Sistemas Genómicos has understood this back in 1998 and today is the largest private organization offering DNA and RNA sequencing in Spain. The director for Latin America and country manager for Mexico discuss the unmet needs they…
Clinical trials The President & CEO of Vita Genomics talks about the advantages that genomic testing offer both to sick and healthy patients, as well as the opportunities to catalogue the science behind Traditional Chinese Medicine. What is the vision behind Vita Genomics? Vita Genomics was founded in 2001. At the time,…
Gene Health The President of Gene Health, a company specialized in genomics testing, talks about the current market situation for genomic testing, and building the business in the Chinese market, as well as the company’ relationship with Vita Genomics. What interested you in the genomics business, and what are your strategies for…
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