Director’s Note
2008 is already shaping up to be a year in which new solutions for accelerating biomedicine are emerging from the adoption of caBIG™ tools and infrastructure. Each day, more organizations and individuals are asking about caBIG™ and how it can address their research challenges. Desire for a pathway to adoption or "adaption" of tools to achieve caBIG™-compatibility soon follows. Read More
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caBIG™ Tool Personalizes Care
With today's increased focus on individualized care, and a growing number of patients enrolled in multiple clinical trials, there's added emphasis on tracking specific patient activities and outcomes.
"Clinical trials are complex to model and run in part because several different things must occur in parallel — treatment regimens, patient monitoring and lab tests, and the patient's treatment schedule must adapt to the responses of the individual participant," said Warren Kibbe, Ph.D., Director of Bioinformatics at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and Research Associate Professor in the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University.
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Patient Management Gets a Boost:
caBIG™ in action at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
FedEx is famous for collecting and delivering millions of packages every day. But keeping track of thousands of patients in clinical trials is an even more daunting task.
So researchers at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University set out to give clinicians, research nurses, and clinical research associates (CRAs) the tools they need to manage, analyze, and share patient study information.
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