Which startups will be showing what they’re doing for cancer care, precision medicine at CONVERGE?
Summary
As the MedCity CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia July 11-12 approaches, here’s a look at the innovation that’s taking root in the cancer care and precision medicine sectors that will be presented by health IT and life science entrepreneurs. Seeker Health, founded by Sandra Shpilberg, is intended to use technology to connect patients to clinical trials and help the biopharmaceutical industry accelerate drug development and innovation. Founder and MD Anderson medicinal chemist Waldemar Priebe wanted to take a powerful class of chemotherapy drugs called anthracyclines and disguise them by making changes to some of the ionic properties to get past the blood-brain barrier. CytoSavvy is a digital pathology informatics business that developed shape-based modeling segmentation algorithms that do shape and color analysis capabilities to increase reliability, save time, and improve decisions. The company, which won the MedCity ENGAGE Pitch Perfect context last year, recently collaborated with Oscar de la Renta on a hoodie for patients receiving treatment via a central line or port-a-cath.
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