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- 01 Feb 2002
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Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
Current issues in health care; ranging from finance and patients' rights to genomics and personalized medicine; were among the subjects discussed last November at the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association's second annual conference. Held... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
equally at home negotiating with Mexican guerrillas and sailing the world's oceans (with genomics guru Venter, among others). From 1988 to 1993, Enriquez served as CEO of Mexico City's for-profit urban development agency. Later, as an HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Summing Up the New Students
Ave. that it sunk in.” Levana Sani Jakarta, Indonesia CV: Research officer, Genome Institute of Singapore “My background is in biochemistry, so I took the HBX CORe course over the summer to build my finance skills. I imagined myself... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Institute of MIT and Harvard to further genomic research, developing a contest that aimed to improve the benchmark algorithm set by Broad scientists, which it did, 14 times faster. Lakhani explains that when structuring an experiment, he... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
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For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
case on the biotechnology firm Biogen, where a seemingly innocuous decision to license databases of new proteins discovered through genomic research wound up completely transforming the company's product-development process. As Vietor led... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 03 Nov 2016
- News
17 Ventures Join the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab
ventures (along with their Harvard affiliations) joining the Life Lab are: Akous – College, HBS, Blavatnik Fellow Aldatu Biosciences – GSAS, HSPH Beacon Genomics – HMS BiomaRx – HMS change:WATER Labs, Inc. – College DayZero Diagnostics –... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
research presentations illustrated how business, science, and technology are addressing societal challenges: SEAS professor Yiling Chen discussed the design of social computing systems, HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani explained the use of crowdsourcing for View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
boundaries of their particular schools to address society’s most exciting opportunities and challenging issues. In the Harvard Innovation Labs, for example, members of the Harvard community are developing and carrying forward ideas for ventures in areas ranging from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
of personalized medicine into clinical practice. Why does it seem that science is often so far ahead of practice in the medical field? Science has moved especially quickly in the last five years with the completion of the Human Genome... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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The Next Big Thing
center recently established in Cambridge to advance genetics-based medicine. Summers, Vest, and Lander all remarked on the promise the genomic revolution holds for society, the need to facilitate its emergence and commercialize its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
consortium has produced a research road map initially emphasizing the Alzheimer’s Genome Project, which exclusively focuses on identifying the remaining genes believed responsible for the disease (four have already been identified), and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
created—or the revolution that will be triggered in the decades to come by genome sequencing, or by the fact that space is now increasingly accessible. In some sense, the information intermediaries that we have taken for granted in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
characterized by three things. First, we work closely with academic institutions and with biotech companies. Secondly, we created a genomics institute at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. And the most important step... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
Abramson. After she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford, a Fulbright Scholarship took her to the London School of Economics to study the implications of the Human Genome Project. While an associate at BCG in New York, she created a... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience
and more treatable stage. And so when I came across this company it just so personally resonated with me. And I pivoted my corporate career into the health care space and into genomic space, all inspired by this very personal journey. I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth, has an unusually accessible style and layout that points to the heart of Enriquez’s mission. “I don’t want people to be afraid of science,” he explains. “I want... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Besides reading all the medical journals, Watson could inform doctors of when certain drug trials began and when others ended; it could also sequence a genome and find important gene... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
beginnings of the genomic research industry and all the companies that grew —and are still growing —from that. It was also the time when the concept of diagnostic related groups DRGs was introduced. DRGs essentially redefined health-care... View Details