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An avatar for precision cancer therapy

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R.K. receives research funding from Genentech, Incyte, Merck, Serono, Pfizer, Sequenom, Foundation Medicine, Konica Minolta, Grifols and Guardant, as well as receiving consultant fees from Loxo, X Biotech, NeoMed and Actuate Therapeutics, receiving speaker fees from Roche, and holding an ownership interest in IDbyDNA and Curematch Inc.

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Kato, S., Kurzrock, R. An avatar for precision cancer therapy. Nat Biotechnol 36, 1053–1055 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4293

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