| 7/30/2008 | FasterCures and the Melanoma Research Alliance featured in The Wall Street Journal article on CollabRx - The Wall Street Journal
Today’s Wall Street Journal article “Putting Drug Development in Patients’ Hands” features Dr. Jay Tenenbaum’s Web-based company CollabRx. CollabRx aims to expand patient-funded research further by connecting individuals or small numbers of patients with the tools and services they need. The article highlights CollabRx’s work with a Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) grantee, the John Wayne Cancer Institute, provides information about MRA, and includes a quote from FasterCures president Greg Simon. |
| 7/29/2008 | Job 1 for the AHIC successor? - Government Health IT
The American Health Information Community is going out of business at the end of the year and will be replaced by an unnamed organization, known familiarly as A2. In this article, one of the leaders of the new organization discusses how the new organization will work to mesh data standards for medical research with its work on standards for e-health records. |
| 6/17/2008 | We Need a New War on Cancer - U.S. News & World Report
Dr. Bernadine Healy's column discusses that strategically ramping up work in cancer genomics and a newer area of exploration, cancer stem cells, is what will lead to improved treatments, provided the money, talent, and technological resources are there. Greg Simon's testimony before the Senate HELP committee is mentioned. |
| 5/19/2008 | Nonprofits Become Funding Source for Smaller Biotechs - BioWorld Financial Watch
In their search for cures, many nonprofit disease foundations are playing the role of investor, funneling research dollars to biotechnology companies. But unlike a venture capital firm, these donor-based patient advocacy groups don't expect a financial return on their "investment" in return for research grants. |
| 5/16/2008 | Microsoft, Google Join Health Care Field - Investors Business Daily
Analysts see promise and problems in online health efforts by Google and Microsoft. Still in testing, Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault aim to give Web surfers a place to store medical records from their doctors, plus lab results and more. The sites will also give users tools to help keep in good health. |
| 5/15/2008 | FasterCures President Greg Simon Testifies to U.S. Senate HELP Committee on Cancer Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century - NewsRX
FasterCures President Greg Simon joined other leaders in the cancer community at a HELP Committee hearing on cancer challenges and opportunities in the 21st Century. His testimony addressed the need to focus our national medical research enterprise on curing diseases, not just studying them. |
| 5/30/2007 | BioBank Central Launches Online Forum to Drive Global Connectivity Among Biobanking Community - PRNewswire via COMTEX
BioBank Central launches online forum to drive global connectivity among biobanking community - Forum will raise key issues in the field of biobanking that are impeding the advancement of personalized medicine |
| 4/18/2007 | Redstone Commits to Charities - Variety
Sumner Redstone, the 83-year-old controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, announced he has committed $105 million in donations to advance cancer treatment and burn recovery at three nonprofit health care organizations. |
| 12/13/2006 | Report: Include Research in NHIN - Government Health IT
FasterCures releases report which focuses on the importance of giving researcher's access to EHRs and genomic database information in order to accelerate the discovery of new therapies to treat diseases. |
| 10/30/2006 | ETFs That Target Disease - BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek profiles a new set of exchange-traded funds that will allow investors to funnel dollars into specific disease categories. |
