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Welcome to the eighty third ever issue of Monday Morning Data Science from the Fred Hutch Data Science Laboratory. We are excited to show you what we have been working on (Fresh from the Lab), plus links that we think you would be interested in (Our Weekly Bookmarks Bar). Part of the purpose of this newsletter is to start conversations, so if you have a question or there is something you would like to share with us please let us know by responding directly to this email.
Fresh from the Lab
[Podcast: Cracking the Cancer Code] This podcast episode introduces a new series called "Cracking the Cancer Code" that explores cancer research and how data science is revolutionizing the field. The hosts, Dr. Carrie Wright and Candace Savonen, discuss the history of cancer, its complexity as a disease, and how cancer research has evolved over time.
[Interview: Johns Hopkins Profiles Christopher Lo] DaSL Data Science Trainer Chris Lo was written up in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni magazine. Click the link above to learn more about his career in biostatistics and all of the wonderful contributions he has made to DaSL.
Our Weekly Bookmarks Bar
[Reflection: Drug Development Failure - How GLP-1 Development Was Abandoned in 1990] Former Dean of Harvard Medical School Jeffrey Flier discusses the early development of GLP-1, a now-successful therapeutic class for diabetes and obesity, and how initial efforts in the late 1980s by the biotech company MetaBio were prematurely abandoned despite promising results. It reflects on the missed opportunities and strategic missteps by MetaBio and its partner Pfizer, which underestimated the potential of GLP-1 therapies that later became major medical and commercial successes.
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