Kim Barcenilla

For artificial intelligence (AI) to be truly effective it needs data—and lots of it, and Paige might have more access to cancer pathology data than any other company. Paige spun out of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) where its co-founder, Prof. Thomas Fuchs, led ground-breaking research in computational pathology.

Imagine you are a primary care physician (PCP) in a mid-sized Midwestern city. Over half of your patients struggle with chronic diseases that are caused and/or exacerbated by patient behaviors, particularly diet, exercise, stress, smoking, and medication adherence. You do your best to counsel these patients on behavior changes that could mitigate disease progression and symptoms, but behavior change is hard, your time with each patient is limited, and pharmacotherapy only helps so much.

Dudnyk Sunovion Trapped by BED Binge eating disorder (BED) was recently recognized as a distinct disorder, and awareness is low. Studies show that less than 10% of patients receive a diagnosis. The Dudnyk team was tasked with creating an educational campaign that will provoke empathy so that psychiatrists will act to identify and diagnose the disease, as well as to help establish BED as a real medical condition that patients cannot overcome alone.