By identifying these biomarkers, the partners hope to better predict which SMM patients will progress to multiple myeloma and ultimately develop new treatments.
Therapy was most effective in patients with a diverse baseline repertoire of T cell receptors and an associated expansion of singleton clones during treatment.
The company will provide proprietary algorithms for analyzing omics and imaging data to define predictors of drug response and identify new biomarkers.
With at-home testing and online, patient-centered reports, the CureCloud initiative sets out to break down barriers to targeted treatment options while building a broad patient dataset.
Developers are improving and expanding the software that has been helping match patients to molecularly targeted drugs at the institute for over three years.
The MAGENTA and ProGen trials showed that video-based and online education can increase the number of patients getting tested compared to traditional approaches.
Results show population screening can pick up risky BRCA1/2 mutations in men and women from Ashkenazi Jewish populations in the US, though engagement challenges remain.
A more accurate, integrated risk model for pancreatic cancer included not only clinical risk factors, but also blood markers and pancreatic cancer loci from genome-wide association studies.
