005 Accelerated Insights From Data for Preventative Health Innovation
Release Date: 05/18/2021
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Today's episode will focus on the topic of using genomics to accelerate drug development. Our host is Tõnu Esko, BC Platforms SAB Chairman and Vice Director of the Institute of Genomics University of Tartu, where he also holds a Professor of Human Genomics position. He is head of the Estonian Biobank Innovation Center and focuses on public private partnerships and innovation transfer. Dr. Esko is also a research scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard at MIT. He acts as one of the senior leaders for Estonian personalized medicine programs and serves as a scientific advisor for...
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Today's podcast will focus on the topic of accelerated insights from data for preventative health innovation. The podcast sheds light on industry challenges and expectations as well as innovative approaches to collaboration. This discussion is led by Tõnu Esko, BC Platforms SAB Chairman and Vice Director of the Institute of Genomics University of Tartu, where he also holds a Professor of Human Genomics position. He is head of the Estonian Biobank Innovation Center and focuses on public private partnerships and innovation transfer. Dr. Esko is also a research scientist at the Broad...
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Today's podcast will focus on the topic of the journey to a safe and secure global data access. This podcast sheds light on industry challenges and expectations, as well as innovative approaches to collaboration. The discussion is led by Tõnu Esko, BC Platforms Scientific Advisory Board Chairman, and Vice Director of the Institute of Genomics at the University of Tartu, where he also holds a Professor of Human Genomics position. He is the Head of Estonian Biobank Innovation Center, and focuses on public-private partnerships and innovation transfer. Dr. Esko is also a research scientist at the...
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Today's episode will focus on the topic of real world data access for label expansion. We are holding an open discussion with a few key leaders on how real world data can be applied in drug development to enhance research and accelerate discoveries. This podcast sheds light on industry challenges and expectations, as well as innovative approaches to collaboration. The discussion is led by Tõnu Esko, BC Platforms Scientific Advisory Board Chairman, and Vice Director of the Institute of Genomics at the University of Tartu, where he also holds a Professor of Human Genomics position. He is...
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Welcome to the BC Platforms Podcast! BC Platforms is the global leader in providing a powerful data discovery and analytics platform, as well as data science solutions for personalized health care. BC Platforms enables cross-functional collaboration with our global federated network of data partners. This episode is an open discussion with three key leaders in the healthcare data industry. Tõnu Esko is the Professor of Human Genomics at the University of Tartu, and the longtime leader and member of the Senior Management Board for the Estonian Biobank. Sirpa Soini is...
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Welcome to the first episode of the BC Platforms podcast! BC Platforms is the global leader in providing a powerful data discovery and analytics platform, as well as data science solutions for personalized health care. BC Platforms enables cross-functional collaboration with our global federated network of data partners. In today’s episode we are discussing shaping a data access framework for population health. We will shed light on industry challenges and expectations, as well as innovative approaches to collaboration. This episode is hosted by Tõnu Esko, BC Patforms SAB Chairman and Vice...
info_outlineToday's podcast will focus on the topic of accelerated insights from data for preventative health innovation. The podcast sheds light on industry challenges and expectations as well as innovative approaches to collaboration.
This discussion is led by Tõnu Esko, BC Platforms SAB Chairman and Vice Director of the Institute of Genomics University of Tartu, where he also holds a Professor of Human Genomics position. He is head of the Estonian Biobank Innovation Center and focuses on public private partnerships and innovation transfer. Dr. Esko is also a research scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard at MIT. He acts as one of the senior leaders for Estonian personalized medicine programs and serves as a scientific advisor for several companies.
Our speaker today is Michael Geer, the co-founder of Humanity along with Peter Ward. Humanity is a health tech startup that enables you to find your rate of aging, and do what you can do to slow your aging down. Michael Geer is a serial tech entrepreneur, having amassed over a billion users with Badoo, AnchorFree, and even more revenue over his years building meaningful consumer focused technology. He wakes up every day working on how to best enable people with superpowers.
What is Covered:
- What are the main obstacles to innovation in healthcare
- How to open the access to different data types, and leverage this knowledge in order to build a complex health guide
- The importance of democratization of data, federated access, and differential privacy in making data readily usable by other people
- What scientific insights Humanity uses to build their products
- How Humanity manages the complexity of its data model, and the feedback it provides to their customers
Resources:
- The Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu https://genomics.ut.ee/en
- The Estonian Biobank https://genomics.ut.ee/en
- Humanity https://www.humanity.health/
- OpenMind https://openmindplatform.org/
- BioAge Labs https://bioagelabs.com/
Connect with Michael Geer:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgeer
Connect with Dr. Tõnu Esko:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tõnu-esko-24511524/
Connect with BC Platforms: