Toronto, ON – Altis Labs, Inc. (“Altis”) is announcing that John F. Conway, former Head of Data Sciences and AI at AstraZeneca, is joining the company as a Scientific and Commercial Advisor.
Conway is a biopharmaceutical industry veteran, who brings experience in designing and scaling data driven R&D environments. While steering AstraZeneca’s MedImmune R&D technology team, Conway led initiatives to facilitate large-scale clinical informatics projects. In particular, he pushed teams to collate and draw on unstructured data including imaging and molecular information.
“Altis is led by extremely talented scientists, engineers, and business leaders. Their ability to operationalize clinical and imaging data is a game changer for how biopharma can accelerate therapeutic development and improve patient outcomes” said Conway.
Prior to AstraZeneca, Conway was Global Director of R&D Innovation and Thought Leadership at Accenture, Head of R&D Strategy at LabAnswer, Vice President of Enterprise Scientific Informatics at Schrödinger and held senior informatics positions at GSK and Merck.
“John brings deep expertise in building R&D platforms that help sponsors overcome the challenges that have held the industry back and need to be addressed,” said Felix Baldauf-Lenschen, Founder and CEO of Altis. “John’s pragmatic approach to incorporating machine learning applications into clinical trial data analysis will enable Altis to deliver actionable, predictive insights for our customers.”
Altis Labs is the computational imaging company advancing precision medicine. We believe that medical imaging is the richest source of untapped information. Life sciences companies use our software platform, Nota, to accelerate all stages of clinical development. Trained on over 140 million real-world images with associated diagnostics, treatment information, and outcomes, Nota predicts clinically meaningful outcomes from baseline and follow-up scans to more accurately stratify patients and quantify treatment effect. Altis is proudly based in Toronto, Canada.
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