data science

Researchers analysing graphs
By  Adam Ang 03:05 am June 30, 2022
Singaporean health tech startup Mesh Bio and UK-based drug discovery firm MultiOmic Health have started collaborating to build a huge multi-omics dataset that will provide insights into metabolic syndrome-related conditions among Asians. WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a press statement, Mesh Bio will tap on its network of healthcare providers to recruit participants for their study, specifically...
Smartphone and smartwatch measurements
By  Dan Goldner, PhD, and Dr. Harpreet Nagra 09:51 am November 19, 2021
Digital health has quickly evolved to a point where we can now capture data on everything from step counts and hours of sleep to blood pressure and blood glucose – all day, every day and everywhere. In addition to these advances in data science, digital health has more recently begun to tap behavioral science to better understand what people do relative to their health and why they do it,...
Intelligencia, artificial intellidence, data science, drug development
By  Tammy Lovell 06:14 am August 19, 2021
Greek startup Intelligencia has received €10.2 million ($12M) of Series A funding in a round led by European health tech investor MTIP.  Previous seed-round investors, the Greek Big Pi Ventures and Synetro Group, also participated and were joined by global professional services firm ZS.  Intelligencia will also partner with ZS, which will use its platform to help accelerate its ability to...
Turing College, Y Combinator, data science, Biomapas, life sciences, AI
By  Sophie Porter 02:10 am April 29, 2021
Lithuanian data science startup Turing College has been selected for the W21 batch of the Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley accelerator programme. Turing College is a data science and AI edtech startup that enables students to learn at their own pace on a peer-driven remote learning platform. With demand for data scientists ballooning, the Vilnius-based company hopes to solve recruitment issues by...
By  Dave Muoio 04:20 pm August 23, 2018
Psychiatry has long stood as one of the more subjective areas of care, but new technologies and large-scale data generation and analysis may offer a more quantifiable approach to mental health treatment. In a recently published perspective, a group of Verily researchers and Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf called for the psychiatric field to embrace digital sensors and the data sciences...
Edinburgh, Scotland
By  Leontina Postelnicu 12:29 pm August 15, 2018
Former Skyscanner Chief Technology Officer Dr Alistair Hann has joined NHS Scotland to help build a national digital platform aiming to improve access to information for both citizens and health and care staff and remove interoperability barriers.   In his new role as CTO of the NHS Digital Service, based within NHS Education for Scotland, Dr Hann will work with Geoff Huggins, Director of Health...