Items Tagged ‘imaging’
October 7, 2019
An Artificial Intelligence Tool to Improve Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes
By Advancing the Science contributor 
Article by Barbara Toman Only 9% of people with pancreatic cancer live for five years after diagnosis. “That is an abysmally low number, probably the worst in human cancers,” says Michael Wallace, M.D., a digestive disease specialist at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida. “We want to get that rate substantially higher.” Artificial intelligence is […]
Tags: artificial intelligence, cancer, cancer prevention, cancer screening, Center for Individualized Medicine, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, gastroenterology, genetic counseling, genetic testing, imaging, Michael Wallace, pancreatic cancer
September 23, 2019
Meet Mukesh Pandey, Ph.D. – developing a new drug to detect prostate cancer in its earliest stages
By Advancing the Science contributor
By Sharon Rosen With a background in organic chemistry, Mukesh Pandey, Ph.D., initially planned to work in the pharmaceutical industry developing medications. But after completing a post-doctoral research fellowship in radiology at Harvard Medical School, he chose to focus his skills on improving imaging technologies to better detect the first signs of disease. Now he is […]
Tags: cancer screening, Center for Individualized Medicine, discovery research, imaging, Mukesh Pandey, prostate cancer, radiology, Timothy DeGrado, Val Lowe
January 25, 2018
It’s been a few weeks since 2018 started, and you may have thought you were done celebrating. If you’ve had your fill of holiday food and frivolity, maybe you’re looking for something else to tickle your fancy. If so, perhaps some of the new happenings from Mayo Clinic research and research education may be just the thing. Help us […]
Tags: basic science, genomics, Iftikhar Kullo, imaging, immunology, Richard Ehman