It’s about time…
Roughly 15 years ago, scientists first mapped the human genome, leading many to believe that this would usher in a new age of personalized therapies to treat cancer and many other diseases. However,...
View ArticleA unifying platform
This past year, President Obama and Vice President Biden brought new energy to our country’s efforts to end cancer as we know it with the Cancer Moonshot initiative. The goal of Moonshot is admirable –...
View ArticleDo we have the technology to cure pancreatic cancer?
By Eric Lefkofsky, Co-Founder and CEO @TempusLabs and Kevin White, President @TempusLabs This year roughly 50,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States. With the...
View ArticleAn operating system for cancer
By Richard Sallari, Kevin White & Eric Lefkofsky Introduction Since the initial draft of the human genome was released in 2000, we have collected an unprecedented amount of genomic data as a...
View ArticleThe COSMOS Connection
We live in a complex world. Technology is all around us, industries are evolving faster than ever, and the pace of innovation is almost daunting. It feels a bit like Ferris Bueller’s classic line...
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A little more empathy
The other morning I was listening to “Hurt” by Christina Aguilera. It’s a song about a daughter who loses her father and never got a chance to tell him how much he meant to her or how sorry she was...
View ArticleI wonder if…
The other day I read a letter written by my partner, Brad, to everyone at Uptake. In it, he referenced the power of asking yourself the most basic of questions, one of which was: “I wonder, if…”...
View ArticleDeath to Cancer, Byte by Byte
There has never been a more urgent time to harness and apply data science to help eradicate cancer. Why? For the first time, it is possible. We stand at the crossroads of two transformative advances in...
View ArticlePutting Waste to Work
About a dozen years ago, my wife and I set up a family foundation. Generally, we were focused on supporting four causes that we felt needed more attention: education, human rights, civic causes and...
View ArticleThoughts on Generative AI
I’ve been building tech companies for the past 25 years and I have yet to see anything like what has occurred over the past few months with generative AI, and that means a lot given that I’ve seen the...
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