Technology Magazine May 2021 | Page 153

GRAIL
Nouscom

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GRAIL

CEO : Hans Bishop

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Nouscom

CEO : Marina Udier-Blagovic
Led by successful entrepreneurs with prior experience in developing innovative candidate vaccines for infectious diseases , Nouscom ’ s platform technology is based on recombinant Adenovirus isolated from non-human great apes ( GAd ) and Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara ( MVA ).
Evaluated in more than 4,000 adults , newborns , and elderly healthy subjects , as well as those with chronic infectious diseases , Nouscom states that the vaccine therapy has shown to be safe and effective , and will continue to leverage its expertise and experience to further develop its therapies .
Combining science , technology and population-scale clinical studies , GRAIL ’ s mission is to detect cancer early in patients . Through continuous collaboration , high intensity sequencing , and modern data science , GRAIL is working to create vast datasets to develop evidence that supports its products .
Such projects include the development of a blood test which combines high-intensity genomic sequencing and complex computational algorithms to find cancer-specific patterns to detect multiple types of cancer .