In this episode of Future of Humanity, we will be talking with Professor Margret Bjarnadottir, one of the world's leading experts on using big data and analytics for doing good. With a Ph.D. from MIT, Margret has used big data and AI to improve opioid prescriptions, predict colorectal cancer mortality, design drug surveillance mechanisms, and patient targeting. She has also studied the best approaches to remedy the pay-gap problem taking into account both equity and economics. Listen in...
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In this episode of Future of Humanity, we will be talking with Professor Margret Bjarnadottir, one of the world's leading experts on using big data and analytics for doing good. With a Ph.D. from MIT, Margret has used big data and AI to improve opioid prescriptions, predict colorectal cancer mortality, design drug surveillance mechanisms, and patient targeting. She has also studied the best approaches to remedy the pay-gap problem taking into account both equity and economics. Listen in...
Dealing with Rare and Orphan Diseases:The Technology Imperative
Future of Humanity
43 minutes
3 years ago
Dealing with Rare and Orphan Diseases:The Technology Imperative
In this episode of Future of Humanity, we will be talking about Rare Diseases with Dr. Vijay Chandru, the Founder and Executive-Chairman of Strand Life Sciences based in Bangalore, India. The fact is that very few people, mostly children, get these diseases due primarily to random faulty genes. Given that the market size is small, pharmaceutical companies do not always focus on finding a cure; hence they are sometimes called "orphan" diseases. Even when one finds a cure, the cost to th...
Future of Humanity
In this episode of Future of Humanity, we will be talking with Professor Margret Bjarnadottir, one of the world's leading experts on using big data and analytics for doing good. With a Ph.D. from MIT, Margret has used big data and AI to improve opioid prescriptions, predict colorectal cancer mortality, design drug surveillance mechanisms, and patient targeting. She has also studied the best approaches to remedy the pay-gap problem taking into account both equity and economics. Listen in...
