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by Bea Karnes
October 30, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — For cancer patients and their loved ones seeking a new treatment or cure, this should offer hope - a consortium was announced Friday that aims to reduce the discovery process for new drugs from six years to one.
The consortium "launched an unprecedented effort to transform the way cancer drugs are discovered by creating an open and sharable platform that integrates high-performance computing, shared biological data from public and industry sources, and emerging biotechnologies to dramatically accelerate the discovery of effective cancer therapies," the University of California, San Francisco said in a statement…
