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March 26, 2025. DeepRx supported by Google Cloud Startup Program. Deep Rx has now joined the Google for Startups Cloud Program, unlocking access to advanced Google Cloud credits, developer-friendly technology, and specialized AI resources. This collaboration will empower us to accelerate our research, enhance product deployment, and strengthen cybersecurity and data protection as we scale our AI solutions for precision oncology globally.

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March 11, 2025.  DeepRx Inc. Appoints Mr. Wensheng Fan as CEO. We are excited to announce the appointment of Wensheng Fan as our new Chief Executive Officer at DeepRx. With over 30 years of experience driving high-tech innovation, including leading Spectral AI through a successful IPO and securing significant federal and commercial funding, Mr. Fan brings a wealth of expertise to our team.

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October 1st, 2024.  DeepRx received angel seed round funding from the AI Oncology SPV.   We proudly announce that a special purpose vehicle (SPV) consisting of practicing oncologist investors has invested in the DeepRx seed round to support the validation study of the COLOXIS model for enhancing clinical outcomes of colon cancer patients.  We are particularly proud of the explicit support given by the oncologists who foresee the important roles of AI in oncology practice.

June 18, 2024.  Drs. Xinghua Lu and Lujia Chen's team is awarded a $1.5 million grant by the National Library of Medicine.  The grant supports further improvement and validate the COLOXIS model. 

May 21st, 2024. A US Patent is awarded to an inventor team led by Drs. Xinghua Lu and Gregory Cooper at the University of Pittsburgh.  In this patent, we developed an innovative instance-specific causal inference framework, which can determine the most important genomic alterations in an individual cancer that drive the disease. Such information reveals the disease mechanisms of each cancerous tumor, which in turn can be used to guide the treatment of the tumor.  The technique laid a foundation for the COLOXIS model, which predicts response to oxaliplatin in a mechanism-oriented fashion. 

April 16, 2024.  DeepRx team is awarded an NSF I-Corp grant supporting the market analyses and business development. 

• Feb 6, 2024.  Our article on developing and validating DeepRx COLOXIS signature for predicting oxaliplatin benefit is published by the Journal of Clinical Oncology: https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.23.01080.  The NRG Oncology, a national clinical trial organization for managing large clinical trials, also published a press release highlighting this impactful work. As the first predictive AI model for oxaliplatin benefit, the COLOXIS signature will significantly improve the accuracy of colon cancer (CC) adjuvant therapies, as shown in the diagram.  It will double the response rate to oxaliplatin in the COLOXIS-positive group patients and, on the other hand, save half of patients from unnecessary oxaliplatin-induced neural toxicity.  This will impact close to a million patients worldwide. 

• May, 2022.  The abstract of our study of using DeepRx COLOXIS system to guide regimen selection for adjuvant therapy of colon cancer is published in ASCO 2022. The significance of this work is two-fold: First, if applied in practice, the system potentially can improve clinical outcomes of over a million colorectal cancer patients worldwide. Second, this study provides the first evidence that AI methods can be used to predict efficacy of chemotherapy and biological drugs in a real clinical setting.  Since chemo drugs remain the backbone of contemporary oncology, this study opens the new direction of developing more AI models to guide application of more chemotherapy agents to treat different cancers, which will benefit millions of patients.