Tech Transfer Roundup: GE Healthcare, Vanderbilt Partner To Optimize Precision Cancer Immunotherapy

Five-year collaboration will analyze data from thousands of cancer patients to optimize immunotherapy treatment and develop PET imaging tracers to stratify clinical trial participants. Also, MD Anderson starts 2019 with three new agreements.

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GE Healthcare and Vanderbilt University Medical Center are working together to combine immuno-oncology with precision medicine through a five-year collaboration unveiled Jan. 6, to determine which patients might respond optimally to certain immunotherapies and to develop PET imaging tracers to help stratify patients for cancer trials.

The two announced their partnership in tandem with the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Jan. 7-10 in San Francisco. The tie-up will combine GE’s artificial intelligence capabilities with efforts to anonymously...

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