Companies Sign Multi-Year Services and Data Subscription Agreement With Initial Focus on Oncology CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — April 7, 2014 — PatientsLikeMe announced today a five-year agreement with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), to explore use of PatientsLikeMe’s global online patient network to develop innovative ways of researching patients’ real-world… Continue reading Genentech and PatientsLikeMe enter patient-centric research collaboration
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PatientsLikeMe launches “Data for Good” campaign to encourage health data sharing to advance medicine
Public Service Announcement-Style Video Calls Patients to “Donate Your Data for You. For Others. For Good” CAMBRIDGE, MA – March 10, 2014 – Today, PatientsLikeMe kicks off a new campaign promoting the value of sharing health information to advance research. In a series of public service announcement-style videos, the company highlights a movement called “data… Continue reading PatientsLikeMe launches “Data for Good” campaign to encourage health data sharing to advance medicine
PatientsLikeMe Unveils New Tool to Match Patients with Clinical Trials Worldwide
Launch at European NHS Healthcare Innovation Expo Comes as PatientsLikeMe Chairman Calls for Revolution in Disease Measurement CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Mar 13, 2013 — The U.S.-based patient network and real-time research platform PatientsLikeMe unveils its global clinical trials tool today at Europe’s Healthcare Innovation Expo 2013, hosted by the National Health Service (NHS). The free tool, unveiled today by… Continue reading PatientsLikeMe Unveils New Tool to Match Patients with Clinical Trials Worldwide
Meet ALS “Treat Us Now” Steering Committee Member Tom Murphy
You may remember our interview with ALS advocate Debra Quinn from last fall. Today, we’d like to introduce you to another ALS patient activist in our midst: Tom Murphy, a PatientsLikeMe member since January 2011. As part of the ALS Treat Us Now nonprofit group, Tom and several other ALS patients around the country have… Continue reading Meet ALS “Treat Us Now” Steering Committee Member Tom Murphy
The Personalized Medicine World Conference in Photos and Tweets
Last week, PatientsLikeMe Co-Founder Jamie Heywood had the honor of speaking at the Personalized Medicine World Conference (PMWC), a two-day event held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. His presentation was entitled “Patient Driven Convergence of Clinical Discovery and Care.” In recognition of the conference’s venue as well as the role that technology… Continue reading The Personalized Medicine World Conference in Photos and Tweets
PATIENTSLIKEME AND R.A.R.E PROJECT UNITE TO FIND AND CONNECT ONE MILLION RARE DISEASE PATIENTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nonprofit and “Not Just for Profit” Announce Collaboration at PartneringForCures Event NEW YORK, NY – November 7, 2011 – Today, PatientsLikeMe and R.A.R.E Project, a nonprofit advocacy and support group for patients with all rare diseases, announce a new partnership to find and connect 1 million rare disease patients to share and… Continue reading PATIENTSLIKEME AND R.A.R.E PROJECT UNITE TO FIND AND CONNECT ONE MILLION RARE DISEASE PATIENTS
Share and Compare: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part III – more R&D)
The research team is very proud of how our team has grown in 2010 and the impact we’ve made in the academic community. In 2010 alone, PatientsLikeMe and our work were mentioned in scientific literature more than 133 times. All of this is because of what you share with us. Yesterday, we highlighted some of… Continue reading Share and Compare: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part III – more R&D)
PatientsLikeMe at the American Epilepsy Society Meeting 2010
Earlier this month, PatientsLikeMe was fortunate enough to attend the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society in San Antonio, Texas. We were there to spread the word about PatientsLikeMe to some 4,000 attendees including epileptologists (physicians specializing in the treatment of epilepsy), neurologists, nurses, and researchers. We had a great spot on the… Continue reading PatientsLikeMe at the American Epilepsy Society Meeting 2010
The Patient Rules. A Discussion with the PatientsLikeMe Executives
We recently sat down with our executive team here at PatientsLikeMe in our first-ever roundtable-format podcast. In this PatientsLikeMeOnCallTM interview, we ask Co-founders Ben and Jamie Heywood, Chief Marketing Officer David S. Williams III, and R&D Director Paul Wicks PhD to discuss why our recent series themes are so important to the history and future… Continue reading The Patient Rules. A Discussion with the PatientsLikeMe Executives
“To Measure Is To Know”
Always check primary sources…. This was the title of a brief message sent to me from Paul Wicks, our head of research here at PatientsLikeMe. He was referring to a quote I have used as my email signature for the last few years; he had discovered I had wrongly attributed it to Archimedes. “To measure… Continue reading “To Measure Is To Know”