Jon and Mindy Gray bet $55M on AI to catch cancer before it starts
A new institute at Penn’s Basser Center will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to intercept hereditary cancers at their earliest stages, before they become disease.
The idea behind the gift is unusual enough to need its own word. Most cancer philanthropy funds treatment, the long campaign that begins once a tumour has announced itself.
Jon and Mindy Gray are funding something earlier, a discipline its champions call interception, which aims to stop hereditary cancers before they ever become disease.
Their $55 million has created the Basser Cancer Interception Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and artificial intelligence sits close to the centre of how it intends to work.
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