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9.28.2021
Peter Jianrui Liu and Andreas Halner are the Co-founders of Oxford Cancer Analytics (OxCAN), one of the portfolio ventures on cohort 3 of the OXFO L.E.V8 accelerator at the Oxford Foundry. OxCAN offers personalised platforms to detect cancer early through a blood test to enable targeted curative treatments. Peter (Jesus College) is a DPhil candidate in Clinical Medicine, and Andreas (St John's) is doing a DPhil in Clinical Medicine and Machine Learning. In 2019, the duo won the grand prize in the Oxford Foundry's All-Innovate student ideas competition, which returns this month.
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9.28.2021
Can we beat lung cancer? OXcan, can. Every day in the UK, around 130 people are diagnosed with lung cancer. If you’re diagnosed during its earliest stage, you have a 57% chance of living for more than five years. If you’re diagnosed during its latest stage, your chances of survival are reduced to just 3%. That’s why lung cancer is the deadliest cancer anyone can face. Fortunately, OXcan is striving to identify more cases, earlier.
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7.15.2021
Imagine the day when all cancers can be cured - it’s the ultimate objective of cancer research. Yet according to the World Health Organisation, cancer accounted for nearly 10 million deaths, globally, in 2020 alone.
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11.23.2020
KQ Labs, an accelerator programme focused on data-driven health, run by the Francis Crick Institute and now funded by LifeArc, has selected ten new start-ups for its third cohort.
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