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INFORMED: an incubator at the US FDA for driving innovations in data science and agile technology

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Information Exchange and Data Transformation (INFORMED), a multidisciplinary initiative anchored in the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence, is a decentralized science and technology incubator designed to harness the power of big data and advanced analytics to improve disease outcomes.

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Khozin, S., Pazdur, R. & Shah, A. INFORMED: an incubator at the US FDA for driving innovations in data science and agile technology. Nat Rev Drug Discov 17, 529–530 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd.2018.34

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