Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Alex Sigaras

By Tim Hinchliffe.  Source: Sociable

The ability to visualize big data in 3D and use that data to collaborate across disciplines through Mixed Reality is transforming cancer research.

As opposed to Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented or Mixed Reality (AR, MR) works by mapping holograms over real, physical space through the help of a head set. With Mixed Reality, you can still see and interact with your immediate...

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COMPUTATIONAL BIOMEDICINE

Every patient’s cancer is different. Olivier Elemento, associate director of the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, hopes to help provide them with highly individualized and precisely targeted treatment.

“We’re taking a precision medicine approach,” he says of...

Image: From left, Igor Tulchinsky, Christopher Mason and Olivier Elemento. photo credit: Roger Tully/Provided