Warren Kibbe discusses challenges and opportunities in cancer research and precision medicine. Cancer is a grand challenge that requires deep biological understanding, advances in scientific methods and technology, and leveraging large amounts of detailed data. While genomics sequencing has become cheaper, analyzing and making sense of the vast amounts of multi-omic, clinical and other data generated poses new challenges. Emerging technologies like cryo-EM and single cell techniques are providing new insights. Collaborative team science bringing together experimentalists and computational/data scientists is critical to make progress on problems like understanding RAS activation. Precision medicine aims to understand health and disease at the population, individual and clinical levels by leveraging diverse clinical, molecular and other data, but connecting
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