How ConcertAI Came to Lead in Cancer Data

If you look back at all the health-tech and drug development companies Harry has hosted on the show, an interesting pattern starts to emerge: a very large number of those companies have gone on to enormous growth and success in their markets. It could be that being on the podcast is like a catapult to success—or it could be that we're pretty good at finding companies that are already on a promising trajectory. Either way, there's no better example than Concert AI.  The company’s CEO, Jeff Elton, first spoke with Harry back in July of 2021. At that time, the company was already one of the leaders in gathering and analyzing broad collections of data about cancer patients involved in clinical trials for new treatments. Its specialty was, and is, going beyond the very specific endpoints measured in clinical trials and looking to electronic medical records, genome sequencing data, insurance claims data, and other sources in order to build a more comprehensive picture of cancer patients and their journeys through the healthcare system. That kind of data can be very useful to companies trying to track the performance of their drugs after they’ve reached the market, and to researchers planning new clinical trials.  And since that first conversation, the company has grown by leaps and bounds. It’s taken over management of more data sources, including the massive CancerLinq database formerly maintained by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. It’s struck up partnerships with some of the leading technology startups, research centers, and drug companies working to beat cancer. And it’s leaning hard into the new wave of deep-learning AI tools and their potential to help find patterns in vast amounts of data about patients. It’s probably safe to say that ConcertAI has gathered up more data about cancer patients than any other company on the planet. And investors have been rushing to pour money into the company, on the conviction that data is going to be the key to getting more and better cancer drugs to market. That’s certainly Jeff Elton's conviction too, as you’ll hear in today's interview. For a full transcript of this episode, please visit our episode page at http://www.glorikian.com/podcast  Please rate and review The Harry Glorikian Show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!  Here's how to do that on Apple Podcasts: 1. Open the Podcasts app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.  2. Navigate to The Harry Glorikian Show podcast. You can find it by searching for it or selecting it from your library. Just note that you'll have to go to the series page which shows all the episodes, not just the page for a single episode. 3. Scroll down to find the subhead titled "Ratings & Reviews." 4. Under one of the highlighted reviews, select "Write a Review." 5. Next, select a star rating at the top — you have the option of choosing between one and five stars.  6. Using the text box at the top, write a title for your review. Then, in the lower text box, write your review. Your review can be up to 300 words long. 7. Once you've finished, select "Send" or "Save" in the top-right corner.  8. If you've never left a podcast review before, enter a nickname. Your nickname will be displayed next to any reviews you leave from here on out.  9. After selecting a nickname, tap OK. Your review may not be immediately visible. On Spotify, the process is similar. Open the Spotify app, navigate to The Harry Glorikian Show, tap the three dots, then tap "Rate Show." Thanks!