Published November 19, 2020
Illumina: Grail Acquisition & Early Cancer Detection
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Executive Bio
Shilpen Patel
Former Medical Director at GRAIL
Why is this interview interesting?
- Walk through the process of GRAIL’s CCGA clinical trial
- How GRAIL detects for cancer versus Freenome and Thrive
- The three different assays GRAIL tested that led to the Galleri test product
- Trade offs between specificity and sensitivity
- How to interpret the clinical trial results
- How GRAIL uses data and machine learning to analyze results
Interview Transcript
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