In 1896, the marathon returned to popularity as a competition in the Summer Olympic Games in Athens. The Olympic Games turned out to be inspiring to visiting Boston officials who returned home ready to challenge the locals and establish what would become one of the world’s top marathons.[1] Next Monday, April 15th, 30,000 runners will hit the road in what will be the 123rd Boston Marathon.
Across the Charles River and throughout the U.S. another race is being run, the race to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to the world of healthcare. So what does a long running (pun intended) marathon...
Biomarker-guided precision medicine is increasingly important in drug discovery and development. Pharma products that incorporate biomarkers to support optimized trial design and selection criteria are three times more likely to make it from Phase I to FDA approval than those that do not.[1] Clinical trials that leverage biomarkers for patient stratification to guide their inclusion and exclusion criteria made up about 34% of oncology studies in 2017.[2] Clinical trials costs are also affected by biomarker-driven development. Equally impactful, one study notes that the use of a validated...
