Virginia BioAnalytics
Personalized Care for Renal Disease
About
It's Personal.
Founded in 2018, Virginia BioAnalytics is a startup company with the vision of transforming personalized care for kidney disease. Our members have more than a decade of experience working in transplant centers and the healthcare industry. Located in the junction of some of the best transplant centers in the country and the Federal Government, we strive to apply our technical skills and passion for advocacy to expand the culture and practice of personalized medicine for kidney disease. We do not sit behind tables: we have been in surgery rooms observing new surgical techniques; we have sat in waiting rooms and talked to organ recipients and donors; we have celebrated and mourned transplant outcomes. This is why kidney disease is personal to us.
Projects
At the crossroad of Data Analytics, AI and Kidney Disease
What are we doing?
Our team is stationed at the kidney transplant centers of University of Toledo Medical Center and University at Buffalo The State University of New York. We plan to recruit 200 kidney transplant patients within 2 years in order to collect blood samples for gene sequencing and stool samples for gut microbiome sequencing. As of summer 2023 we have completed 25% of the recruitment process and we continuously receive sequenced data from our pipeline. Our team is comprised of data analysts, engineers, kidney transplant surgeons, geneticists and transplant pharmacists. We aim to use the collected data to built and test a preliminary personalized medicine model for predicting the optimum therapeutic immunosuppressive medication dosage. Our plan is to apply the personalized medicine model in a clinical trial at the end of the second year and publish our results. We will use the same set of data to build the first personalized diet support system based on gut microbiome composition to maintain and restore the diversity and health of the gut. Additionally, we are developing the first personalized AI-based support system for live kidney donors and transplant coordinators to facilitate informed decision making for potential donors and promote live donation across the country.
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