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Flatiron Aims To Accelerate, Personalize Cancer Research

 
• By Peter Charlish

Flatiron Health was formed to exploit a previously untapped source of real-world data on the treatment and clinical outcomes of cancer patients. The company is now working with most of the major players in the oncology sector as well as with the FDA to maximize the benefits of such data analytics.

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It reads like a case study from a textbook on entrepreneurship. Two alumni of one of the US’ leading business schools, with a string of start-ups behind them, launch an advertising technology and software company that is later acquired by Google. While working at Google, both came to realize that, although the cancer landscape was evolving rapidly, the technology supporting research into new treatments was lagging far behind. Their response in 2012 was to create Flatiron Health Inc., a cancer analytics company whose stated mission is "serving cancer patients and our customers by dramatically improving treatment and accelerating research.”

Fast forward four years to May 2016 when Flatiron announced a research collaboration agreement with the US FDA to determine...

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