Every Cure: Unlocking Drug Potential With Artificial Intelligence - Waqas Haque and Tracey Sikora

Oncology Data Advisor

In this installment of Oncology Data Advisor's Exploring Artificial Intelligence in Oncology series, Dr. Waqas Haque, Fellows Forum member and incoming Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the University of Chicago, speaks with Tracey Sikora, Co-Founder of Every Cure, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to repurpose existing FDA-approved drugs for other indications, especially in rare diseases. Check out the discussion to learn more about: • Challenges in finding treatments for rare diseases, including sparse data, low patient numbers, and lack of financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies • Every Cure’s mission to unlock the potential of drugs that are already on the market • Harnessing the latest AI and machine learning technology to structure data in a biomedical knowledge graph, looking at drugs, diseases, pathways, and targets • Barriers in drug repurposing, including clinical validation and eventual approval • The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) grant and the importance of federal funding for rare disease research • How to develop efficient clinical trials without a large sample size • The future of AI-enabled drug discovery in oncology • And more!