Tailor Bio

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£100,000-plus Innovate UK boost for two cutting-edge startups. The UK government recently announced that 800 innovative businesses and startups are set to benefit from Innovate UK funding. Two startups currently on the Accelerate Cambridge programme run by the Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School – Tailor Bio and medwise.ai – are among the winners. Oncology diagnostics company Tailor Bio (formerly known as PinPoint Oncology) has secured £67,000 in funding for the Innovate UK category: application of whole-genome sequencing approaches to cancer. The venture is using machine learning to find patterns in tumour DNA which can be used to predict a person's response to cancer drugs. Their current test uses a biopsy of a patient's tumour to predict if they will respond to a drug used to treat ovarian cancer. Co-founder Jason Yip (MBA 2018) said: "I think that under normal circumstances, the startup journey is already incredibly difficult, and with COVID-19, this is made even harder. We're very privileged that the UK continues to support cutting-edge startups through Innovate UK. We're excited to receive this support from them, and hope to use the funding to advance precision medicine approaches to cancer." Medwise.ai has been awarded a UK government grant…