Gidon Akler, MD Talks About Geneyx and Their COVID-19 Genome Project | Podcast S2 E17
Gidon Akler, MD talks about collecting samples and sequence genomes from COVID-19 patients. They hope this will help identify protective and risk bearing genetic factors, there would help in diagnostic and treatment methods.
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The Israel Ministry of Health and the Israel Innovation Authority, along with Sourasky (Ichilov) Medical Center and Rambam Health Care Campus in addition to a startup venture called Geneyx have formed a public-private consortium that will collect samples and sequence genomes from thousands of COVID-19 patients in an effort to identify protective and risk-bearing genetic factors with the aim of identifying new diagnostic and treatment methods. The startup offers next-generation sequencing data analysis, interpretation, reporting and storage products and services.
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