Cancer, group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth, is one of the focuses of Tempus. Tempus is an organization or team with a shared goal: improve patient outcomes. They redefine how genomic data is used in a clinical setting. The organization’s goal is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before by providing physicians with tools that learn as we gather more data. Eric Lefkofsky, Co-Founder and CEO, leads the Leadership Team of the company. He founded the company last 2015 after his successful stint of Groupon. Kevin White, PhD serves as the president while Gary Palmer, MD is the Chief Medical Officer.
Tempus provides unique sequencing services and analyzes somatic and germ line molecular data with the intended therapeutic data to allow physicians to make scientific data-based decisions. They use a new approach to next-generation sequencing. The physicians have access to a diversity of sequencing capabilities, all with full transcriptome and tumor/normal match. It makes the decisions easier. Tempus regularly partners with top leading physicians and tertiary hospitals to supplement a health institution’s current offering by providing access to genomic sequencing with breakthrough analytics and an interactive machine learning platform that also leverages data from biological models, proteomics and single cell genomics.
Samples are collected with proper consent, and are then put into the correct equipment to have them tested with technicians taking the time to consider looking at microfuges to help with cell and blood analysis and storage. Tempus works directly with the physicians and the patients to gather appropriate samples for DNA and RNA sequencing. The Tempus Laboratory is a state-of-the-art building that brings data science and technology into clinical care. The CLIA-certified Tempus Lab is a highly robotic or automated laboratory optimized for high-throughput clinical next-generation sequencing services with a current capacity of over 50,000 patients every year. The usual timeline for sequencing is within two weeks to three weeks of receiving the patient samples.
Apart from sequencing, Tempus also pioneers on Breast Cancer research. One of the organization’s goals is to discover new “targeted” therapies that may selectively kill cancer cells while keeping healthy/normal cells intact.
Recently, Tempus partnered with University of Chicago Medicine to Collaborate on Pancreatic Cancer Research Project. Tempus works along with a leading team of scientists and physicians from the Chicago Pancreatic Cancer Initiative (CPCI), spearheaded by Ralph Weichselbaum, MD, who is the professor and chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Chicago.
I’ve lost my share of family members to cancer so I’m always trying to learn more about it. And I try to donate when at all possible. I’ll have to learn more about Tempus.
What a great company. My grandfather had lung cancer, and I was in middle school at the time, it was awful watching him suffer, and passing away. I really like to support companies like this one.
good to know! cancer is scary and knowing that there are medical innovations is very very good!
I’m so glad that there are places that are doing cancer research. I really hope there is a cure one day.
I have to admit I haven’t heard of Tempus before, but it is great they are working towards cancer research, anyone who is doing that is high on my list of respect.
I hate cancer as one of my family died of it. Its great to know that there is research going on to fight cancer and help the needed.
This is a topic I am not very educated on so I enjoyed learning more about it. You are very good at explaining things and making them easy to understand. I’m glad I learned something new today!
Kudos to this approach. I hope we are able to find more solutions to this deadly diseases in the future.
My grandpa and grandma died from cancer: bones and breast. So i try to do my best to learn more so that i can be better prepared or spot abnormalities
That is really interesting. There are so many developments nowadays when it comes to cancer.
Agreed, and hurrah for it. Everyone has been affected by it negatively in one way or another, it seems. For me it was a grandma. 🙁
It is great to know that there is an organization that doing research focuses on cancer. Hope the medical treatment is getting better and much better for the cancer patients in the future.
Quite an informative article! It feels good to know that there is research being done. Thanks for sharing this!
Sounds like a great company – anything that conducts research for the greater good is a winner in my eyes and worthy of support.
Cancer is now really an enemy of many families. I love to know more about this too and glad Tempus is also here to do this various researches. I’ll share this info to my friends too.
My grandma died 3 years ago because of cancer. I often send my energy to the Universe, so that it can collect people interested in science and health and solve this awful problem!
Love to hear that there are places doing their best to do cancer research. We recently had our 1st outreach event at National Children’s Hospital- Children’s Cancer Ward in Manila, Philippines http://bit.ly/2D9mKH2
Hope they continue to help people. The big C is awful whatever stage. Inspiring, keep up the brilliant work.
I love the work they’re doing to help fight cancer. This is a disease that we need to get rid of once and for all.
It’s good to know that there are really a lot of companies that put a lot of effort in cancer research.
I am not familiar with Tempus but I am very interested in learning more about what they do to help fight cancer. Thank you for sharing this information!
It’s companies like this that will help us to finally beat cancer one day. I’m sure of it.
Love to hear about TEMPUS to do some research for cancer treatment. This is a disease that we need to focus to talk about awesome post.
Sounds like an amazing company working towards much-needed research.