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The long game: Precision trials shouldn’t start from zero every time

Precision medicine sponsors invest heavily to identify, educate, screen, consent, genotype, and support rare patients. In many programs, once a trial ends, that...
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Trust is the foundation of precision medicine

UK Biobank and similar resources have made an extraordinary contribution to biomedical research, enabling important advances across genomics, population health,...
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How Sano enables precision patient finding at scale

Recruitment in precision medicine and rare disease trials remains constrained by fragmented data, low prevalence populations, and heavy reliance on site-based p...
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Podcast recap: Suzanne Schindler on Alzheimer’s biomarkers

On the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short speaks with Dr. Suzanne Schindler associate professor of neurology at Washington University in St. ...
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The rare disease blueprint: What precision medicine can learn from the hardest trials

Rare disease exposes the limits of current clinical development models. Small, fragmented populations make patient identification difficult. Heterogeneous biolo...
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Podcast recap: Derek Ansel on decision-making under uncertainty in rare disease clinical trials

Rare disease drug development involves decision-making under extreme uncertainty. Teams are asked to design trials without well-established endpoints, in small ...
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Podcast recap: Tim Jobson on earlier liver disease detection and the LiveWell study

Liver disease remains one of the few major disease areas where outcomes have not improved in line with other fields such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. I...
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Genetic literacy: Prevent drop-off in trial recruitment

In rare disease and genetically stratified trials, recruitment often depends on a single critical step: confirming that a patient carries the relevant genetic v...
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The psychology of kit return: What drives completion?

Genetic testing has become a core component of patient identification and stratification in modern clinical trials, particularly in rare disease and precision m...
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Podcast recap: Andrea Ganna on applying polygenic scores and EHRs in healthcare

On the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick welcomed Dr. Andrea Ganna, an Associate Professor at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM),...
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