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In the news | Forbes
Microsoft Announces New Foundation Model For Digital Pathology, Diving Deeper Into Clinical Medicine
Microsoft is delving even deeper into clinical medicine, evident by the announcement today highlighting the company’s development of a foundation model for pathology in partnership with Providence and the University of Washington. Specifically, the company has leveraged its significant work…
In the news | Flagship Pioneering
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare and Biotech
AI has a massive role to play in the big leaps ahead for biotech and human health from enabling us to explore biology in ways never before possible to speeding up the pace at which we discover and deliver new…
In the news | Fast Company
ImmuneCODE named to Fast Company “Health: Next Big Things in Tech” list
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech - For using data to create a test for past COVID-19 infection | The tech giant teamed up with Adaptive Biotech to create ImmuneCODE, an open-source database of immune responses to COVID-19, which they used to…
In the news | GeekWire
IPO filing: Microsoft invested $45M in Adaptive Biotechnologies as part of universal blood test deal
In 2017, Microsoft struck a deal with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies to develop a blood test with the promise of diagnosing dozens of diseases at once, and as part of the agreement, pledged to invest an undisclosed amount in the company. Adaptive filed…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blog
Every immune system has a story to tell; the key is knowing how to listen
Decoding nature's antigen map requires immunological data of a scale never-before generated, coupled with new algorithmic approaches to modeling how T-cells bind to antigens.
In the news | GeekWire
How Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech became ‘a single team’ to build groundbreaking AI diagnostic
Every day, thousands of people cross the 520 bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, Wash. But for some of those people, the daily journey is more than just a commute: It is part of a years-long project to create a completely…
In the news | Fast Company
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies are using AI to decode the immune system
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies hope to pair advances in AI and machine learning with recent breakthroughs in biotechnology to map out the immune system and tap into the body's impressive diagnostic system.
Awards | HIV Vaccine Trials Network
Jonathan Carlson receives inaugural Bonnie Mathieson Young Investigator Award
The HIV Vaccine Trials Network honored Jonathan Carlson with an inaugural Bonnie Mathieson Young Investigator Award for his leading role in research that leveraged machine learning and the trials network’s data to show how HIV variants that are pre-adapted to an individual’s immune…