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Three individuals with Stanford affiliations named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars May 8, 2021 12:09 am Stanford University - California By Kathleen J. Sullivan The Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, which funds graduate study at Stanford, last week announced its 2021 cohort, which includes three individuals with Stanford affiliations. The scholars – the fourth Knight-Hennessy Scholars …
The New IBM Chip Just Got a Boost from Biden Bill May 7, 2021 8:13 pm Financial Content What’s new with IBM stock? IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced a milestone in semiconductor manufacturing yesterday. Now, the company is able to produce chips that are just 2 nanometers thick. Source: shutterstock.com/LCV On top of that, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna …
Cardinal Health Invests In An Advanced Visibility Solution May 7, 2021 7:03 pm Forbes Cardinal Health Truck at a Warehouse Cardinal Health With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cardinal Health made the decision they needed enhanced visibility into PPE shipments as demand for these products surged. Since then, FourKites has become a key …
Featured Story: Taking Health Care to the Next Level May 7, 2021 5:34 pm The Lane Report - Kentucky By Shannon Clinton After valiant efforts in an unpredictable, unprecedented year, health care systems across the commonwealth are looking ahead to happier horizons, expanding their footprints and furnishing these new—or newly renovated—facilities with the …
Xenter, Inc. Appoints Industry Leaders Robert S. Langer, Elazer R. Edelman, David J. Bearss and Mark Stautberg to Board of Directors; Closes $12M Series A May 7, 2021 5:24 pm Tradingcharts.com SALT LAKE CITY, May 7, 2021 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Xenter, Inc. (XenterMD.com), the world's first start-up Device-Data-Drug healthcare technologies company, today announced the appointment of four additional industry leaders to its Board of Directors and …

EXPERT SPOTLIGHT

Eric Schadt, PhD, CEO,
Sema4, and Dean for Precision Medicine and the Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, chaired a session entitled “Expediting Patient Diagnosis and Treatment with AI and Machine Learning” at the 2018 Precision Medicine World Congress.

Szabolcs Nagy,
is Co-Founder and CEO of Hungary-based Turbine, developer of the Simulated Cell, a fully interactable, digital model of a cancer cell. Turbine was also recently chosen as “Best AI Startup” by the Central European Startup Awards.

Mark H. Michalski, MD,
Executive Director, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Center for Clinical Data Science, says, “2018 will be the year AI becomes real for medicine. We’re going to move from algorithms to products and think more about integration and validation, so that these solutions can move from concepts to real, tangible solutions for our doctors.”

Jason Bhan, MD,
is Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of New York City-based Prognos, which applies AI and clinical diagnostic data to develop advanced analytics solutions for the payer, diagnostics, and life science markets.