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  • Roche Data Science Coalition

    RDSC is a group of like-minded public and private organizations committed to working with the global community to develop solutions to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The collaborators in the Coalition include: Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), doc.ai, NVIDIA, Self Care Catalysts, ThinkData Works Inc and Vector Institute.

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  • COVID Long-hauler Project

    The industry coalition and Vector Institute will try to better understand the COVID-19 “Long Haulers” phenomenon by leveraging NLP methodologies and subject matter expertise on unstructured online data (social media, news articles, etc.). The intent is to develop a capability to recognize early signals of symptoms related to a condition that previously has been poorly…

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  • EndALS

    The End ALS Challenge, administered by Kaggle, an online community of data scientists and machine learners, presents 150 rich datasets contributed from 1,000 Answer ALS patient research participants. The goal is to surface insights through an open data competition that connects the global AI and neuroscience communities to better understand the overall biology of amyotrophic…

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  • AI-based Precision Oncology Platform for Development of RNA-based Predictive Biomarkers of Drug Response

    This project aims to develop a new AI-based platform based on RNA-seq data to assist in matching cancer patients to therapies. The main innovation of the system is its ability to leverage both large-scale preclinical pharmacogenomic data and clinical trial datasets to enrich the portfolio of candidate drug response biomarkers. The main focus is on…

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  • Synthetic Data Bootcamp

    Data researchers from various industries have joined forces to participate in the Vector Institute’s Synthetic Data Bootcamp – an intensive three-day study of current trends in synthetic data topics. Data scientists and computational biologists expanded their knowledge base and applied it to the exploration and benchmarking of generative models, such as DPC-GAN, PATE-GAN and fastGAN.…

Events

April 2023

Turing-Roche Knowledge Share Event: AI and Health Equity

An event series for the Turing-Roche Partnership, featuring updates, knowledge sharing and academic/industry perspectives. This event features Vicky Hellon, Community Manager for the Turing-Roche Partnership; Honghan Wu, a Turing Fellow and Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Informatics, UCL; Fanny Sie, Head of AI and Emerging Technology External Collaborations and Joshua Hoang, AI and Digital Healthcare Partner both at Roche. Honghan gives a talk on Fairness in AI enabled clinical decision making, touching upon the difficulties around defining fairness and why current fairness metrics have not been well adopted in AI in medicine. Fanny and Joshua’s talk is on AI with Roche- a coalition bringing the healthcare ecosystem together. They give an overview of the coalition’s current projects that contribute to health equity through open science.

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May 31, 2023

Xcelerate RARE: A Rare Disease Open Science Data Challenge

Rare Diseases face significant challenges in diagnosis and treatment and are associated with an unprecedented burden on individuals living with the disease and their caregivers — only 5% of the known 10,000+ rare diseases have an FDA-approved treatment. aiR has formed a collaborative partnership with RARE-X Global Genes with the intent to resolve barriers for patients to responsibly share their data and engage in research. We are happy to announce the launch of #RareDisease Open Science Data Challenge which is bringing together researchers, clinicians, and data scientists alongside patients in an open environment to accelerate scientific discovery.
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