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CHINESE AI START-UP BEATS STANFORD TEAM IN X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC COMPETITION

The company’s goal is to make AI-driven x-ray analysis available across significant swathes of China’s rural areas. Jeff Rowe | Aug 23, 2019 11:52 am The Stanford Machine Learning group, based at Stanford University, recently launched a competition designed to compare AI’s capability in interpreting chest x-rays to the capabilities of human experts from Stanford.  And the humans lost. The winner was an AI team from JF Healthcare, a medical diagnostic start-up based in Nanchang, China, which outperformed all three Stanford radiologists involved with an average AUC score (a measure of diagnostic accuracy) of 0.926. According to a JF statement, the test demonstrates...

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Ceres Nanosciences, University of Virginia, and George Mason University receive $600,000 award from the Virginia Catalyst to develop a Nanotrap® liquid biopsy collection device for cancer diagnostics

MANASSAS, Va. — June 4, 2019 — Ceres Nanosciences, Inc. (Ceres), University of Virginia (UVA), and George Mason University (Mason) today announced the receipt of a $600,000 award from the Virginia Catalyst for the development of a Nanotrap® liquid biopsy collection device. This award will be matched by $1.2 million in product development funding by Ceres Nanosciences. Cancer is the second leading cause of death world-wide and the global cancer burden is expected to grow to 23.6 million new cancer cases by 2030. Tissue biopsies are the current gold standard for detecting and obtaining information about cancer. By collecting cells from tumors, doctors can...

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Ceres Opens $9 Million Series A Round

Ceres Nanosciences opens $9 Million Series A round with $3 Million investment from GreyBird Ventures for the development of novel diagnostics powered by its Nanotrap® Platform. Ceres Nanosciences, Inc. today announced the completion of a $3MM Million Series A financing as part of a larger, $9MM Series A round. GreyBird Ventures, an early stage venture fund, with offices in Boston, is leading the round. GreyBird is committing up to $5.5MM over the next year, and is supporting Ceres in completing the round with additional investment from strategic industry partners. The Nanotrap technology was invented at George Mason University and developed...

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