Swedish and ISB Pool Resources To Spot Disease Early
Summary
Now the two Seattle-based groups are pooling their efforts to see if they can make breakthroughs to detect deadly brain cancers at an earlier, and more treatable, stage.The collaboration is being led by ISB president Leroy Hood and Greg Foltz, a neurosurgeon at Swedish.The effort is getting started with a tissue bank composed of pieces of brain tumors removed during surgery, along with a genomic database.By digging deep into the genomes of those brain cells, the researchers say they hope to find clues that reveal new and better targets for drug development and treatment of the disease.He added that the researchers “are focused solely on developing early diagnostic tools and treatment solutions for human disease rather than theoretical pursuits.”