Owkin Teams With AstraZeneca To Develop AI-Based Breast Cancer Prescreening Tool

Biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has partnered with start-up “unicorn” Owkin to develop an AI-powered tool to prescreen for gBRCA mutations on the basis of morphological features in digitized pathology slides. Built on extensive, high-quality data sourced from the France-based PortrAIt consortium, the AI will help to prioritize patients for further testing, streamlining the diagnostic process, Owkin says.

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"Unicorn" start-up Owkin and AstraZeneca are developing an AI-powered breast cancer prescreening solution under a partnership announced on 2 October.

According to French-American Owkin, which bills itself as “the first end-to-end AI-biotech that uses cutting-edge causal AI to unlock precision drug discovery, development and diagnostics,” the AI tool in development...

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