AWS for Industries
Author: Kelli Jonakin, Ph.D.
Kelli Jonakin is the Worldwide Head of Marketing for Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Genomics Industry verticals at AWS. She comes with a background in pharmaceutical research, with a special focus on development and commercialization of biologics. Kelli received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Systems Biology from the University of Colorado, and received an NIH post-doctoral fellowship grant to study Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Webinar: Digital Medicine 101
Technology is changing how we practice medicine. Sensors and wearables are getting smaller and cheaper, and algorithms are becoming powerful enough to predict medical outcomes. Yet despite rapid advances, healthcare lags behind other industries in truly putting these technologies to use. A major barrier to entry is the cross-disciplinary approach required to create such tools, […]
Genomics Webinar: Improving the diagnosis of infectious diseases with microbial genomic analysis
The discovery of microbial cell-free DNA has propelled the introduction of new technologies that can be leveraged for next-generation diagnostic assays. Previously inaccessible genomic information can now be comprehensively surveyed for microorganisms, all from a single blood draw. This webinar will outline how infectious disease testing firm Karius analyzes microbial cell-free DNA data through novel […]
AWS re:Invent 2019 – Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Guide
We have an exciting re:Invent planned for the healthcare and life science industries this year. This year’s conference will be our biggest yet, with 60,000+ attendees, more than 2,000 technical sessions and dedicated tracks for both healthcare and life sciences. Below is some key information to help industry attendees make the most of re:Invent 2019. […]
Genomic pathogen surveillance using Nextflow on AWS
The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance (CGPS) is based at the Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge and The Big Data Institute, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The Centre hopes to enable the linking and real-time interpretation of data globally to track pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in a cost-effective manner. Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS […]
Moderna Webinar: Building the Digital Biotech Company
Moderna is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of mRNA medicines designed to direct the patient’s own cells to produce proteins that have a therapeutic or preventive benefit. Developing therapeutics and vaccines for a variety of diseases challenges process development and operations to establish agile and flexible manufacturing, capable of executing […]
AWS Public Database program adds valuable MIMIC-III dataset for researchers
Biomedical researchers require access to accurate, detailed data. The MIT Laboratory of Computational Physiology (LCP) MIMIC-III dataset is a popular resource that captures a variety of measures longitudinally over time, across many patients, and can drive analytics and machine learning toward research discovery and improved clinical decision-making. Recently, the MIT Laboratory of Computational Physiology (LCP) […]