NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The Broad Institute announced today that it has partnered with the Biden Cancer Initiative, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the California-based social change group the Emerson Collective, and cancer patients to form a new non-profit cancer research organization called Count Me In.
A non - profit cancer data - sharing organisation called Count Me In has been launched by the Broad Institute , the Biden Cancer Initiative , the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute , the Emerson Collective and cancer patients . The organisation said it wanted to collect medical data from more than 1000 patients from around the world , with all main and rare cancer types accounted for . It will analyse that patient information and distribute it to researchers around the world through databases including the cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics and the National Cancer Institute ’s Cancer Data Commons .