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EU-Funded Project to Develop Infectious Disease Tests, Digital Health Infrastructure for Africa
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The Digital Innovations and Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases in Africa project kicked off this month and will run through September 2027 with a budget of about €6 million.
Congenica, Gabriel Precision Oncology Partner on Clinical Interpretation for Somatic Cancer Testing
University of Glasgow spinout Gabriel Precision Oncology will contribute a bioinformatics pipeline derived from cancer tissue samples to accelerate MDx adoption.
New UK Precision Medicine Lab Supported With £87.5M to Focus on Pharmacogenomics, AI-Based Imaging
The firms supporting the new lab include Thermo Fisher Scientific, Canon Medical, and Siemens Healthineers, all of which will contribute their know-how and technologies to the effort.
While the first task of the centers will be to digitize their workflows to improve efficiency, they also aim to eventually develop new AI-based analytical tools for diagnosing patients.
The handheld device uses CMOS technology for multiplexed measurement of disease-linked metabolites and could prove useful for inexpensive POC testing.