Leading blockchain healthcare companies enter exclusive partnership
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) May 15, 2018 -- 15th of May, 7AM PST, San Francisco, CA – An exclusive collaboration has been announced between Nebula Genomics, a San Francisco-based company co-founded by genomics pioneer George Church that is using blockchain to build a marketplace for genomic and clinical data, and Longenesis, a Hong Kong-based partnership between Insilico Medicine and the Bitfury Group that is applying deep learning and blockchain technologies to make a platform for the exchange of healthcare data.
“By allowing individuals and large data providers such as biobanks to maintain ownership of their genomic data on our platform and profit from it, Nebula Genomics seeks to incentivize generation of genomic data. In doing so, we will gather the data on a single network where it can be conveniently and securely accessed by researchers. In other words, we will make a marketplace that will create an equitable and efficient economy for genomic data. Longenesis has built a similar platform that instead focuses on longitudinal health data, so our platforms complement one another very well,” said Dr. George Church, co-founder of Nebula Genomics.
Nebula Genomics, Longenesis, Bitfury and Insilico Medicine aim to create platforms that utilize blockchain technology to facilitate a more efficient and equitable market for the exchange of life data. Nebula Genomics, co-founded by Harvard Medical School professor and genomics pioneer Dr. George Church along with Harvard researchers Kamal Obbad and Dennis Grishin, is building a platform that allows individuals to have their genomes sequenced and opt to provide them to data buyers directly through a secure blockchain-based network. The platform will eventually support other types of clinical data as well.
Longenesis is a partnership between Insilico Medicine, a leading artificial intelligence company that uses deep learning for drug discovery, and the Bitfury Group, a leading full-service blockchain technology company. It is developing a platform that uses AI-integrated toolsets to store and exchange healthcare-related data such as lab test results, and has already launched the platform in alpha and piloted it for over a year.
“Nebula Genomics and Longenesis share the ultimate goal of making an equitable marketplace for healthcare-related data. By working together, our shared vision of democratizing access to health data will come closer to reality. Longenesis’ founding team consists of leaders in data-driven drug discovery and blockchain. They have uniquely valuable experience and insight in the field of applying blockchain to healthcare and have had an operational network for over a year. For these reasons, we are pleased to announce an exclusive partnership between Nebula and Longenesis through which we will merge the Longenesis platform into the Nebula platform and work with the Longenesis team on further developing the network. With the combined expertise of our teams, we hope to solve the issues preventing efficient and equitable access to healthcare data,” said Kamal Obbad, CEO and co-founder of Nebula Genomics.
The two companies have agreed to an exclusive partnership through which the Longenesis platform will be incorporated into the Nebula platform. The Longenesis developer team will assist with this development and with the continued development of the Nebula platform, with the goal of building a platform that can integrate a wide range of life data and facilitate its use by researchers.
“Recent advances in science and technology already allow us to transform human life data such as blood tests and genomic data into life saving products and services. Hence life data can help extend productive longevity, improve productivity, reduce healthcare costs and contribute to economic growth. We recently proposed a model for assessing the relative value of the human life data with the multiple factors affecting the price of a data set looking at combination-, time-, timing-, relationship-value of data and a variety of value multipliers linked to the clinical outcomes. We aim to work with the brilliant Harvard team to develop the new field of microdataeconomics - the study of the value of data for drug discovery purposes and macrodataeconomics - the study of the value of data for preventive and curative personalized medicine”, said Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, CEO of Insilico Medicine and the CSO of Longenesis.
“We are very happy to join forces with the Nebula Genomics team to unlock the value of data in many new and previously unimaginable ways. Today, the data is being valued for its utility to generate sales revenue or using the cost to generate the data as a base. But in the context of healthcare and preventative medicine the value of the data and the way we collect and combine it will be dramatically different. This joint effort is likely to contribute to the global economic growth”, said Garry Zmudze, the co-founder and managing director of Longenesis.
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About Insilico Medicine, Inc
Insilico Medicine, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Emerging Technology Centers at the Johns Hopkins University Eastern campus in Baltimore, with R&D and management resources in Belgium, Russia, UK, Taiwan and Korea sourced through hackathons and competitions. The company and its scientists is dedicated to extending human productive longevity and transforming every step of the drug discovery and drug development process through excellence in biomarker discovery, drug development, digital medicine and aging research.
Insilico pioneered the applications of the generative adversarial networks (GANs) and reinforcement learning for generation of novel molecular structures for the diseases with a known target and with no known targets. In addition to working collaborations with the large pharmaceutical companies, the company is pursuing internal drug discovery programs in cancer, dermatological diseases, fibrosis, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, ALS, diabetes, sarcopenia, and aging. Through a partnership with LifeExtension.com the company launched a range of nutraceutical products compounded using the advanced bioinformatics techniques and deep learning approaches. It also provides a range of consumer-facing applications including Young.AI.
In 2017, NVIDIA selected Insilico Medicine as one of the Top 5 AI companies in its potential for social impact. In 2018, the company was named one of the global top 100 AI companies by CB Insights. Brief company video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l62jlwgL3v8
http://www.Insilico.com
About Nebula Genomics
Nebula Genomics is a blockchain healthcare company based in San Francisco. It is co-founded by Harvard Medical School Professor and genomics pioneer Dr. George Church along with Harvard researchers Kamal Obbad and Dennis Grishin.
The company aims to build a marketplace for genomic and other health-related data that consists of a blockchain-based, peer-to-peer network to which individuals or data aggregators such as biobanks can upload their genomic data. They can then directly and securely connect with data buyers and receive payment for their data. The Nebula model reduces enhances protection of personal genomic data and satisfies the needs of data buyers in regards to data availability, data acquisition logistics, and resources needed for genomic big data.
http://www.nebulagenomics.io
About Longenesis
Longenesis is a result of a partnership between the leader in artificial intelligence for healthcare, Insilico Medicine and the leader in blockchain, BitFury intended to return control over life data back to the individuals. The mission of Longenesis is to improve human performance, extend life, prevent disease and make all people wealthier by developing a decentralized ecosystem for exchange and utilization of human life data using the latest advances in blockchain and artificial intelligence. The Longenesis platform has been in development since August 2017 without engaging in any crypto fundraising activities. For more information visit:
http://www.longenesis.com
About BitFury
The Bitfury Group is the leading full-service blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the blockchain ecosystem. The Bitfury Group develops and delivers both the software and the hardware solutions necessary for businesses, governments, organizations and individuals to securely move an asset across the blockchain. The expertise of the Bitfury Group ensures successful, easy, fast, secure and cost-effective connectivity to the blockchain. Bitfury is a global team of experts in technology, business, communications, security and civil society. Bitfury believes the blockchain will open new doors for global economic opportunity and prosperity, and its mission is to create and advance blockchain applications that will further promote innovation and the advancement of the peer-to peer economy.
http://www.bitfury.com
Qingsong Zhu, Insilico Medicine, Inc., +1 4434517212, [email protected]
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