Smruti J. Vidwans

CollabRx uses information technology to inform personalized cancer treatment planning by combining the world's knowledge on cutting-edge therapies with specific insights from the nation's top cancer experts starting with the area of greatest need advanced cancers in patients who have effectively exhausted the standard of care. For physicians, Collabrx provides sophisticated, yet intuitive decision support tools to help them rapidly and accurately determine which medical tests, therapies, and clinical trials should be considered in order to deliver the best possible care to their patients. For patients, CollabRx provides actionable and highly-credible information that can be shared with their oncologist in a form that supports collaborative decision making in determining a cancer treatment plan that is customized for them. For researchers, CollabRx provides a framework to categorize the molecular subtypes of cancer based on the genetic profile of the tumor, and more importantly link specific subtypes to relevant treatments and ultimately patient clinical outcomes to drive the science and medicine forward.

CollabRx, Inc. is a data analytics company. It offers cloud-based systems, which provides clinically relevant interpretive knowledge to institutions, physicians, researchers and patients for genomics-based medicine in cancer and other diseases to inform health care decision-making. Its CollabRx Therapy Finders product provides information to physicians and patients for rapidly determining which medical tests, therapies, and clinical trials may be considered in cancer treatment planning with a specific emphasis on the tumor genetic profile. The company was founded by Jeff Shrager in December 1989 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

Wyeth LLC develops, manufactures, and distributes pharmaceuticals and biological substances. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Madison, NJ.

Roche Palo Alto LLC discovers and develops medicines. Its medicines are used for the treatment of central nervous system, inflammation, metabolism, oncology, and virology diseases. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

GlaxoSmithKline, Inc. manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products. The company develops medicines to prevent infections that cause serious medical problems such as respiratory illnesses, diabetes, viral control, infections, and central nervous system disorders. The company is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.