X-Health.show - meet the future of healthcare
The X-Health.show brings to you brilliant minds behind programming living cells, tech that detects pre-term delivery in seconds, brain-computer interface or apps that employ AI to match you, your disease with the best treatment.
For the eXtra Health of the future.
You’ll meet visionaries from Switzerland who push the boundaries of healthcare.
Engineers who teamed up with doctors, scientists turned CEOs, doctors programming AI-powered apps, researchers who abandoned university labs to improve your health.
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Patients who imagine a better way.
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X-Health.show - meet the future of healthcare
Goal – Deliver Cancer Drugs Faster: Dr. Marie-Agnès Doucey, Calico Biosystems
Do you know what is the % of cancer drug candidates that fail in human trials?
Guess, and I bet you underestimated it.
This is what we speak at the beginning of this episode and what my guest wants to change dramatically.
You will also hear about:
- the % of patients that actually benefit from approved cancer drug therapies (spoiler: so so low)
- cancer monotherapies vs. cancer combination therapies
- how to reproduce the human cancer ecosystem from a tumor
- precision oncology
- multiomics analysis
- and how to bring cancer drugs faster to patients
Dr. Marie-Agnès Doucey, the co-founder of Calico Biosystems, is a biotechnology engineer with a PhD in biochemistry. She has over 15 years of experience in R&D and drug development programs in oncology.
Calico Biosystems is a Swiss startup developing a drug testing platform that uses patients’ tumors, multiomics profiling, and computational modeling to predict the clinical efficacy of anti-cancer drugs at the pre-clinical stage. Radically accelerating drug development.
https://calicobiosystems.com/
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