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Author: Lisa McFerrin
Lisa McFerrin is the WW Lead for HCLS Strategy & Solutions for Research, Discovery, and Translational Medicine at AWS. Lisa has a background in math and computer science and a PhD in Bioinformatics, with over 15 years experience in software and methods that bridges biomedical data to advance the understanding of cancer biology and improve patient care. She is dedicated to lowering barriers in data analysis to facilitate collaborative and reproducible research.
Executive Conversations: Building the Brain Knowledge Platform, with Shoaib Mufti, Data and Technology Lead at the Allen Institute for Brain Science
Shoaib Mufti, Head of Data and Technology at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, joins Lisa McFerrin, Worldwide Lead for Research, Discovery, and Translational Medicine at Amazon Web Services (AWS), to share how the Allen Institute is using the cloud to build the Brain Knowledge Platform (BKP) for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]
Highlights from the AWS Life Sciences Executive Symposium 2023: Accelerating Pharma Drug Discovery with ML and Generative AI
On May 15, we hosted the AWS Life Sciences Executive Symposium in Boston, where I led our track on ‘accelerating pharma drug discovery with Machine Learning (ML)’. Over 300 life sciences executives from across 100 organizations attended this half-day, in-person event to explore how they can drive innovation through robust data foundations and machine learning […]
Executive Conversations: Driving precision oncology care using multi-modal data with Louis Culot of Philips
At this year’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) Industry Innovators Summit, Louis Culot, Innovation Strategy Leader, Precision Diagnosis at Philips, explained how the company is using cloud technology to integrate disciplines and data, to make precision medicine in oncology more accessible. In this interview, Lisa McFerrin, Worldwide Head of Genomics Solutions at AWS, continues the conversation […]
Executive Conversations: The era of genomics in the cloud with Peter Goodhand, CEO, Global Alliance for Genomics & Health
Peter Goodhand, CEO of the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (GA4GH), joins Lisa McFerrin, Worldwide Lead of Genomic Bioinformatics at AWS, to discuss how secure storage and responsible sharing of genomic data in the cloud can benefit human health. GA4GH is a nonprofit alliance dedicated to creating frameworks and standards that facilitate data sharing […]