Alzheimer’s disease (AD), today is the most prevalent form of dementia afflicting more than 50 million people worldwide (Queiroz et al., 2022, Varesi et al., 2022), and with a doubling time of 20 years could easily...read more
Category - Emerging technologies/applications
Velsera Is Building an Ecosystem that Accelerates the R&D Loop and Democratizes Omics Data to Propel the Next Era of Precision Medicine
My most recent interview is with Gavin Nichols, the CEO of the newly formed company Velsera. Velsera launched in January 2023, after quietly acquiring the three companies Seven Bridges, UgenTec, and Pierian in mid...read more
The Cheap Genome Is Not Enough – We Need an “Accurate and Good Genome”
We may still be five Years out until We Can Sequence Everyone I had the chance to attend the Precision Medicine World Conference PMWC 2023 SV in the last couple of days. Some 2,000+ individuals from across the life...read more
ONTOFORCE Wants to Increase Data Literacy and Empower Citizen Data Scientists
This month’s “Company Spotlight” provides a closer look at ONTOFORCE, the creator of a semantic search technology platform for insight generation. I spoke with Valerie Morel, CEO of ONTOFORCE, about ONTOFORCE’s platform...read more
