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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Society for Participatory Medicine

Healthcare stakeholders such as health systems, pharmaceutical companies, biotech and life sciences firms, and insurance companies serve patients as end users. My mission of advocacy was widened and deepened upon my stage IV colorectal cancer diagnosis in 2014 when I shared my expertise with others fighting for scans and treatments.

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Genomics Startup Human Longevity’s Valuation Falls 80% from $1.6 Billion down to $310M

Lloyd Price

Craig Venter in 2014—at around $310 million, according to a Human Longevity regulatory filing obtained by Lagniappe Labs LLC, whose Prime Unicorn Index tracks valuations of privately held companies. Existing investors include biotech giant Celgene Corp. , The funding round values the company—co-founded by genomics pioneer J.