Christian Hense

[Christian Hense @C_Hense]

I just published The US$250B Opportunity — An Investor’s Perspective on the Future of Cancer Diagnostics https://t.co/SyO8Y4jffH

[Christian Hense @C_Hense]

This is the first longitudinal study testing the impact of repeated financial incentives, and their withdrawal, on FIT (stool test) completion done for colorectal cancer screening.
The result: Offering small incentives did not inc…https://t.co/yFwvuyrSP9 https://t.co/O0DQ1NuVft

[Christian Hense @C_Hense]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays ... great Christmas "lunch" of the Universal Diagnostics SL team last Friday ... and now sending out best wishes for a merry Christmas, a happy new year, and hopefully some nice holidays to all of our collaboration partn…https://t.co/BilRWedi5w

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Great presentation today from Prof. Michael Baumann, Chairman and Scientific Member of the Management Board of DKFZ German Cancer Research Center. My key takeaways:
1) Cancer incidences are increasing from 14M in 2012, to 18M in 2018, to 25M in 2028 - 'gr…https://t.co/LsVZpPVsCq

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Universal Diagnostics SL Head of Research Kristi Kruusmaa shared her perspective on #liquid #biopsies yesterday at an expert workshop of Stiftung LebensBlicke arguing the benefits of a blood test, significant advances in the OMICS technologies, and potent…https://t.co/GOGEjMMwRU

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Grateful for our >3 years partnership with @MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid. Grateful to the whole MDA team. Making cancer a curable disease by detecting it early only works in #collaboration. Or to say it with @MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid words: "J…https://t.co/jz0guOeMo4

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The Chinese scientist @He Jankui has claimed to have altered the genomes of twin baby girls born this month in a way that will pass the modification on to future generations. His intention was to make the children's cells resistant…https://t.co/LqT0Ysl9d9 https://t.co/lOW4zU94T3

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#Congratulations to GIANT Health Event for a great conference at Stamford Bridge last week. Great talks and networking around prevention and early diagnostics. Exactly what we as Universal Diagnostics SL believe in. Thank you @Barry_HealthTec & @Maxine Bi…https://t.co/rAULjKvedz

[Christian Hense @C_Hense]

Runners amongst you - #artificial #intelligence supported training plans that optimize your training? Have a look at
TrainAsONE Nominated in 2 categories (technology/app and blogs / professional) at 2019 at https://t.co/zOZB6mndHi. Not only a great app,…https://t.co/ezeAUe5sbN

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AHA Health is building a patient centered health network where they bring together diagnostic labs, pharmacies, care home providers, hospitals, and the national health services.
First use case: #Diabetes - 4 main activities are: Storing one health record…https://t.co/frppCiOlnL

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November is #PancreaticCancer month: Pancreatic cancer accounts for about 3% of all cancers in the US and about 7% of all cancer deaths. It is one of the deadliest. Also here is true - #early #detection saves lifes. Could not agree more with Pancreatic Ca…https://t.co/1olGDGJZvw

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Are We Being Misled About #Precision #Medicine? @LizSzabo Kaiser Health News describes The New York Times, that Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the cancer patients they’ve saved, and reporters love to write about them.
But deaths still vastly out…https://t.co/YOoSo2b83k

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#LungCanerAwareness month November: Just this summer I read an incredibly well written, moving, and thought provoking biography of the neurosurgeon @Paul Kalanithi. He was diagnosed with lung cancer stage 4. Highly recommend it - it has >8K reviews, on av…https://t.co/5Xc8I6CrFF

[Christian Hense @C_Hense]

#LungCancerAwareness month November - American Cancer Society: 14% of all new cancers are lung cancers. FDA adds - it is the leading cancer death of men and women. 80% of those due to smoking.
Universal Diagnostics SL has done research on lung cancer and…https://t.co/wImzPhN7gJ

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Universal Diagnostics SL became 6th years old yesterday. @Juan_Barea and Marko Bitenc founded it 2012 based on an idea developed at @Singularity. The vision remains the same: Make #cancer a #curable #disease by #detecting it #early!
Thank you to the whole…https://t.co/zByVx48NOL

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Is #longevity an option for you? How old do you want to become? I have not made up my mind yet ... find out more about the #future of #your #aging: Includes research on slowing down the aging process, restoring structure and function of organs via stem ce…https://t.co/xlRPSvqfJl

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One of the key challenges in the #Vaccine #challenge is knowing how many people live in an area and then matching vaccine amounts to population. For a district manager it is hard to know how many people need to be supplied, as for example in #Bangladesh c…https://t.co/q0qIVLC4fO

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CB Insights on where #Big #Pharma #healthcare #investments go. My two takeaways: First, #biotech is hottest sector with >35% of all deals and main acquisition target with >31% of deals. Second, all companies use different strategie…https://t.co/bPZBhR6sVY https://t.co/QyGDtOIRIq

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#Congratulations to World Food Programme #Innovation #Accelerator
WFP and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the great #Vaccine Delivery Bootcamp. The ideas ranging from using machine learning to determining population numbers, applying optical scanning…https://t.co/FF62ISEeQJ

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Today is #nationalmammographyday. #Mammography is currently the best way of screening for #breast #cancer. But it has challenges: 20% of breast cancers are missed, false-positive rate is high, patients are exposed to radiation. It can in some incidences l…https://t.co/CDohDvum6a