PatientsLikeMe, the first community-based personalized medicine platform for people with life-changing conditions, and 23andMe, the world's leading personal genomics company, announce a partnership today to help people with Parkinson's disease. PatientsLikeMe is teaming with 23andMe on its effort to recruit 10,000 people with Parkinson's for a massive study of the disease, and give patients a way to learn more about their personal genetics. 

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company. 

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News)--CollabRx, a San Francisco-based personalized cancer research services firm, today said that it has initiated a cancer sequencing project in collaboration with Alacris Pharmaceuticals.

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February 26, 2009 | SAN FRANCISCO--In the powerful opening keynote at CHI's Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference on Wednesday, Jay "Marty" Tenenbaum, founder and chairman of CollabRx, urged members of the life sciences community to share their resources to empower personalized research and help satisfy the unmet medical needs of the "long tail" of disease. "As a patient...I want to tap all of the world's knowledge and all of the world's resources into curing my disease," Tenenbaum said.

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(BUSINESS WIRE) - CollabRx, Inc. announced today the launch of its new personalized cancer research service, CollabRx ONE, designed to provide physicians with new insights into specific treatment options for their cancer patients.

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By Michael E. Carbine, Editor

"PatientsLikeMe, a social networking Web site, provides an interactive online community for patients with what Ben Haywood, a co-founder, calls 'life changing illnesses:' Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), HIV and mood disorders.

"But what makes the Web site's business model particularly interesting is its focus on aggregating data that payers, providers and industry can use to create products and services that improve the lives of patients."

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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Cambridge, Mass., December 08, 2008

"PatientsLikeMe, the leading online community for patients with life-changing conditions, announces the launch of its newest community for people with fibromyalgia. Patients can chart the course of their disease by answering simple questions about their experience and adding their treatments and symptoms to their profile. All profiles are shared within the community, so patients can find others like them and learn from each other.

"'There is no question fibromyalgia patients are experiencing significant debilitating symptoms,' says co-founder James Heywood. 'We have the potential to understand this disease in a way that helps advance its treatment.'

"As part of its launch this week, PatientsLikeMe has a blog series, 'Voices of Fibromyalgia,' devoted to the disease from the patient perspective. Tomorrow's blog features a Q&A with triathlete and fibromyalgia patient Minnie Lee. 'PatientsLikeMe has massive potential to be a crucial resource for fibromyalgia patients by having every possible symptom and treatment laid out in one central source,' says Lee.

"PatientsLikeMe, which launched its first community for patients with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) in 2006, is rapidly expanding. In 2008 alone, PatientsLikeMe has launched customized communities for people with HIV, depression and bipolar (and other mood-related conditions), a series of orphan diseases (PSP, MSA, and Devic's) and fibromyalgia. All communities are free to join.

"The company and its expansion is profiled in this week's BusinessWeek magazine and featured in a 12/5/08 segment on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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