Remember the “Precision Medicine Initiative” that President Obama announced in the State of the Union address a couple weeks ago? We speculated about what it might look like here. Today, the White House announced a plan to allocate $215 million to President Obama’s Precision Healthcare Initiative. There are several prongs of the proposed plan: $130 million to … Continue reading White House Proposes $215 Million Budget for Precision Medicine Initiative
Month: January 2015
Why Tute? A Personal Note from CEO Reid Robison.
I’m a big fan of the power of why, especially when it comes to thinking about our chosen career paths, and how we spend our minutes, days, hours and especially our lives. Everyone who knows me, knows I’m deeply immersed in this thing called Tute. (Yup, that startup with the funny name). And in case … Continue reading Why Tute? A Personal Note from CEO Reid Robison.
CSO David Mittelman & National Medal of Science Recipient Leroy Hood Share Hopes for President’s “Precision Medicine Initiative”
During the 2015 State of the Union Address this week, President Barack Obama announced several new plans and initiatives. One of them is a “Precision Medicine Initiative,” that he hopes will, “bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes — and to give all of us access to the personalized information we need … Continue reading CSO David Mittelman & National Medal of Science Recipient Leroy Hood Share Hopes for President’s “Precision Medicine Initiative”
Co-founders Kai Wang and Reid Robison Contribute to Article About New Big Data Toolset SeqHBase
SeqHBase, designed by a team led by Dr. Min He (Center for Human Genetics, University of Wisconsin Madison), is a new toolset for processing large amounts of next-generation sequencing data. Built with special consideration for scalability, SeqHBase is capable of handling the sequenced genomes/exome data of multiple members of a population and noting which variants … Continue reading Co-founders Kai Wang and Reid Robison Contribute to Article About New Big Data Toolset SeqHBase
Tute Genomics Donates DNA Biobank for Mac’s Gift Children’s Cancer Foundation
In December 2014, Tute Genomics was privileged to join with Mac’s Gift Children’s Cancer Foundation, Utah Foundation for Biomedical Research, Nu Skin, Ancestry.com, and the Brigham Young University Basketball team to make Christmas special for kids who struggle with cancer. Mac’s Gift is a nonprofit group specializing in the emotional wellness of children with cancer and … Continue reading Tute Genomics Donates DNA Biobank for Mac’s Gift Children’s Cancer Foundation
Reid Robison, CEO of Tute, Named Among Top 40 Healthcare Transformers
The Top 40 Healthcare Transformers were recently announced by MM&M, including our very own CEO Dr. Reid Robison. Change within a set-in-its-ways industry can be scary—that is, unless you’ve got the will and bravado to tackle it head-on. Here are the 40 inventors, strategists, advocates who are challenging, disrupting and otherwise transforming the healthcare business: … Continue reading Reid Robison, CEO of Tute, Named Among Top 40 Healthcare Transformers
PRESS RELEASE: David Mittelman, Ph.D., Geneticist and Informatics Expert, Joins Tute Genomics as Chief Scientific Officer
Strategic addition to help Tute Genomics power the genome revolution, enable genome-guided personalized medicine. PROVO, Utah. January 6, 2015 – Tute Genomics, a leading clinical genomics provider that offers a platform and API for interpreting genetic data, announced today that it has added David Mittelman, Ph.D. as the company’s Chief Scientific Officer. He is the … Continue reading PRESS RELEASE: David Mittelman, Ph.D., Geneticist and Informatics Expert, Joins Tute Genomics as Chief Scientific Officer