Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, will contribute $10 million to UCSF’s Institute for Computational Health Sciences (IHCS) to harness the power of “big data,” to support precision medicine, UCSF News Center reports. Atul Butte, MD, PhD, who leads UCSF’s Institute for Computational Health Sciences has been named the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at UCSF.IHCS encourages researchers to think of data as a “recyclable” resource and is focused
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African Hospitals Adopt Artificial Intelligence to Advance Clinical Genomics
Sophia Genetics, a provider of data-driven medicine, today unveiled the list of African hospitals that have started integrating SOPHiA, the company’s artificial intelligence, into their clinical workflow to advance patients’ care across the continent. Medical institutions at the forefront of innovation already using SOPHiA in Africa include:· PharmaProcess in Casablanca, Morocco;· ImmCell in Rabat, Morocco;· The Al Azhar Oncology Center in Rabat, Morocco;· The Riad Biology Center in Rabat,
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