Watson collaboration on DNA thrills cancer-treatment team at UNMC
Livewell Nebraska, May 6, 2015 (full text of article)
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Each week, results of new clinical trials and reports of researchers’ work are posted on the Internet. That information can be helpful to physicians treating cancer patients, but wading through it all and finding what’s applicable isn’t easy.
That’s why Dr. Ken Cowan, director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, is excited about the cancer center’s collaboration with IBM and its Watson computer system ...
IBM says Watson is able to analyze DNA information and rapidly identify treatments targeted to individual cancer patients. The company announced partnerships to test the Watson system with the Omaha cancer center, on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus, and 13 others Tuesday ...
In addition to the Buffett Cancer Center, other institutions that are part of the testing include Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia; City of Hope, Los Angeles; Cleveland Clinic; Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, North Carolina; McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis; New York Genome Center; Sanford Health, Fargo, North Dakota; University of Kansas Cancer Center; University of North Carolina Lineberger Cancer Center; University of Southern California Center for Applied Molecular Medicine; University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle; and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut.
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