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News Impacting the Future of Health & Medicine
Dear <<First Name>>,

Welcome to the Exponential Medicine newsletter. Below you will find this week's curated top stories that are impacting health and biomedicine.

Exponential Medicine 2019 will be held this November 4-7th. Apply now to join the xMed community with 600 selected innovators and over 60 world-class faculty.  Know of a cutting edge healthcare company? Have them featured in the xMed Innovation Lab where they can compete for a MEDy award. 
Exponential Medicine Faculty: We have an extraordinary Exponential Medicine Faculty converging for xMed 2019. In addition to mainstage sessions, meet and interactive with faculty at breakout workshops and activities ranging from our infamous beachside bonfires and 'silent disco' to yoga, art, runs and meditation sessions. 
 

Exponential Medicine 2019 Faculty
(more to be announced!)

 
Faculty and Sessions Include:  Scripps' Eric Topol and Stanford's Abraham Verghese exploring AI, 'Medicine & the Machine'. Health Leads & The Health Initiative founder Rebecca Onie on social determinants and community health.  Aging and Longevity with Harvard's David Sinclair.  Patient-physician and U.Penn scientist David Fajgenbaum on 'Chasing his Cure' and new approaches to rare disease drug discovery.  Digital Health from inception to impact with AliveCor founder David AlbertYonatan Adiri, CEO of Healthy.io and Alexander Tsiaras of StoryMD.The future of clinical practice with One Medical CEO Amir Dan Rubin, nurse economist Shawna Butler and Private Medical's Jordan Shlain Future of the payor with Anthem Inc's CEO Gail Boudreaux. Future of food & nutrition with Angiogenesis Foundation's William Li and Memphis Meats founder Uma Valeti. Emerging neuroscience with Harvard's Rudolf Tanzi and Singularity University' Divya Chander. Design meets healthcare with Dell Medical School's Stacey Chang. Blockchain and healthcare with Mariya Filipova. Mushrooms as medicine with mycologist Paul Stamets and cinematographer Louis Schwartzberg. Big Data and bioinformatics with Stanford's Nigam Shah, Diagnostic Robotic's Kira Radinsky & Mayo Clinic's Suraj Kapa. Our Neobiological Age with WIRED co-founder Jane Metcalfe, Humane Genomic's Andrew Hessel & Stanford immunologist Kari Nadeu. Future of robotics with Intuitive Surgical's Catherine Mohr. VR and Digital Surgery with Shafi Ahmed. Future of Pharma with Sanofi's Ameet Nathwani.  Deloitte's Asif Dhar on reimagining the regulator. Texas A&M' s Dean of Veterinary Medicine Eleanor Green on lessons from animal health.  Ambient  sensing with Klick Health CEO Leerom Segal.  CRISPR and the bioethical challenges of gene editing with Jamie Metzl.  Brown University's Megan Ranney on social activism and digital health in emergency medicine. Plus sessions on global health, AI, quantum computing, future of diagnostics and more.... and thought leaders including XPRIZE chairman and Singularity University co-founder Peter Diamandis, Venture Valkyrie's Lisa Suennen to Transform Health's Lucien Engelen.... Stay tuned for many more faculty to be announced.  
 
All the best and hope to see you this November,

Daniel

 
 
TOP STORIES IN TECHNOLOGY, HEALTH & MEDICINE
Future of Pharma
Advancing Drug Discovery via Artificial Intelligence (Cell)
Extracting evidence of supplement-drug interactions from literature (Allen AI)
Design characteristics, risk of bias, & reporting of randomized controlled trials supporting approvals of cancer drugs (BMJ)
LUCA Biologics launches to tackle women's health—through the microbiome (Fierce Biotech)

AI, BigData & Machine Learning
Using machine learning to estimate risk of cardiovascular death (MIT)
Tech companies’ dangerous practice: using AI to mine hidden health data (STAT)
AI-based algorithm learns to detect tumors in microscopy images (Physics World)
What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves (New Yorker) 
Google completes controversial takeover of DeepMind Health (TechCrunch)

Genomics, Gene Editing & Beyond
The next omics? Tracking a lifetime of exposures to better understand disease (Knowable)
C-section babies show distinct gut microbiome differences (New Atlas)
Whole-genome study lifts veil on inheritance patterns in autism (Spectrum)

The Brain, Neuromedicine & Mental Health
Scientists Identify Neurons That Help the Brain Forget (NYTimes)
4 Ways to Improve Mental Health Through Digital Health (HIT Consultant)
Brain tumors form synapses with healthy neurons (Stanford)
 

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