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Disrupting Computational Biology: Elucidata’s AI Revolutionizes Life Sciences

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AI is transforming healthcare, paving the way for breakthroughs in precision medicine and unlocking extraordinary value. On the Disruption Interruption podcast, Elucidata CEO Abhishek Jha discusses how a data-centric approach addresses life sciences’ unique challenges. Discover the critical role of clean, structured data in driving AI-powered innovation and advancing the future of healthcare.

TAMPA BAY, Fla., Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, with McKinsey estimating it could unlock up to $1 trillion in value across the industry. (1) This week on the Disruption Interruption podcast, host Karla Jo Helms (KJ) explores this transformative frontier with Abhishek Jha, Co-Founder and CEO of Elucidata—a biotech innovator at the intersection of AI and computational biology, driving advancements in precision medicine.

“The AI paradigm that worked for tech will not carry over to life sciences… it’s time for data-centric AI” — Abhishek Jha, Co-Founder and CEO of Elucidata

Jha sheds light on the immense opportunities AI presents while addressing critical challenges the healthcare sector must overcome to fully harness its potential. “The AI paradigm that worked for tech will not carry over to life sciences… it’s time for data-centric AI,” he asserts, emphasizing the need for a tailored approach to innovation in medicine.

Computational Biology: Simulating Science, Accelerating Discovery
Jha explains that computational biology allows researchers to simulate biological processes in the same way the aviation industry uses models to simulate flight conditions. “You cannot test your plane in every condition; it’s a very expensive and slow process,” he notes. Similarly, researchers can test and refine models before applying them in real-world experiments, making the process more efficient.

By iteratively refining these models based on experimental feedback, scientists can better understand intricate biological mechanisms. “If the model is good, you can make some predictions, go back, and test it. If not, you improve your model,” Jha illustrates.

The Trillion-Dollar Problem: Bridging the Gap Between Tech and Life Sciences
One of the most critical challenges between tech companies and life sciences is the sheer volume of data available. “They think they have a trillion-dollar problem, but they have hundreds of ten-million-dollar problems,” states Jha. As he explains, the entire paradigm must shift to adapt to a world where many valuable problems exist, rather than focusing on a singularly valuable one.

Tech giants like Google benefit from access to billions of users generating data daily, providing them with an immense pool of information to fuel AI models. In contrast, life sciences data—while equally critical—remains far scarcer and harder to obtain. For instance, even large clinical trials for widespread conditions like breast cancer typically involve only a few thousand patients, a scale that pales in comparison to the vast data sources available to tech companies.

“There’s a significant disparity,” Jha points out. “How much data about my purchasing habits is available versus my health data? We don’t have access to that, nor is it consolidated in one single place.”

Clean Data Over Big Data: The Key to AI Success
Data cleaning and preparation are often underestimated in AI workflows, particularly in life sciences. Abhishek Jha compares this to “technical debt,” where rushing to amass data without proper structuring leads to long-term challenges. For instance, inconsistent terms like “hepatitic carcinoma” and “liver cancer” across datasets create inefficiencies, forcing researchers to spend months standardizing data before analysis.

“Clean data is always more valuable than more data,” Jha emphasizes. “Investing in a thoughtful data strategy is crucial for AI success.” Without standardized terminology and organized datasets, life sciences risk delaying breakthroughs and limiting the potential of AI-driven innovation.

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Disrupting Drug Development Delays: How Abhishek Jha’s Elucidata Is Powering Faster Medical Advances with AI
https://omny.fm/shows/disruption-interruption/disrupting-drug-development-delays-how-abhishek-jh

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-jha-ba20a821/
Company Website: https://www.elucidata.io/
Disruption Interruption is the podcast where you will hear from today’s biggest Industry Disruptors. Learn what motivated them to bring about innovation and how they overcame opposition to adoption.
Disruption Interruption can be listened to in Apple’s App Store and Spotify.

About Disruption Interruption™
Disruption is happening on an unprecedented scale, impacting all manner of industries— MedTech, Finance, IT, eCommerce, shipping, logistics, and more—and COVID has moved their timelines up a full decade or more. But WHO are these disruptors and when did they say, “THAT’S IT! I’VE HAD IT!”? Time to Disrupt and Interrupt with host Karla Jo “KJ” Helms, veteran communications disruptor. KJ interviews badasses who are disrupting their industries and altering economic networks that have become antiquated with an establishment resistant to progress. She delves into uncovering secrets from industry rebels and quiet revolutionaries that uncover common traits—and not-so-common—that are changing our economic markets… and lives. Visit the world’s key pioneers that persist to success, despite arrows in their backs at http://www.disruption-interruption.com.

About Abhishek Jha
Abhishek Jha is the Co-Founder and CEO of Elucidata, a trailblazing biotech company recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Biotech Companies of 2024. Under his leadership, Elucidata has transformed biological discovery by leveraging data-centric approaches and cutting-edge AI and ML innovations.
Elucidata’s flagship platform, Polly, accelerates research by harmonizing multi-modal biomedical data—such as Omics, Assay, Real-World, Clinical, EHR, and CRO data—into a Unified Data Model. Polly’s LLM-powered curation enables 10x faster data preparation with 99.99% accuracy, drastically reducing the time to actionable insights and advancing precision medicine.
Before founding Elucidata in 2015, Abhishek spent nearly six years as a Senior Scientist at Agios Pharmaceuticals, contributing to the development of four first-in-class drugs. His experience includes designing algorithms to integrate high-throughput metabolic data with transcriptional data and deploying visualization tools for clinical applications.
Abhishek holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship from MIT, where he developed computational models in immunology, and his career has been defined by a passion for combining technology and science to revolutionize patient outcomes. Beyond his professional pursuits, Abhishek enjoys discussing innovations in biotech and mentoring the next generation of entrepreneurs.

About Karla Jo Helms
Karla Jo Helms is the Chief Evangelist and Anti-PR® Strategist for JOTO PR Disruptors™. Karla Jo learned firsthand how unforgiving business can be when millions of dollars are on the line — and how the control of public opinion often determines whether one company is happily chosen, or another is brutally rejected. Being an alumnus of crisis management, Karla Jo has worked with litigation attorneys, private investigators, and the media to help restore companies of goodwill into the good graces of public opinion — Karla Jo operates on the ethic of getting it right the first time, not relying on second chances and doing what it takes to excel. Helms speaks globally on public relations, how the PR industry itself has lost its way, and how, in the right hands, corporations can harness the power of Anti-PR to drive markets and impact market perception.

References
1. Bhasker, Shashank, et al. “Tackling Healthcare’s Biggest Burdens with Generative AI.” mckinsey.com, 10 July 2023, http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare/our-insights/tackling-healthcares-biggest-burdens-with-generative-ai.

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Yeastar Unveils PBX-inbuilt Hotel Management Module to Transform Hotel Operations

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XIAMEN, China, Jan. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Yeastar, a global leader in Unified Communications (UC) solutions, has launched a groundbreaking Hotel Management module integrated into its P-Series Phone System. Tailored for small and medium-sized hotels, this new feature combines hospitality communications with lightweight property management to streamline hotel daily operations and enhance guest satisfaction.

The Hotel Management Module provides a comprehensive suite of hospitality-centric features with dedicated service panels. With it, hotel staff can efficiently manage room assignments, guest check-ins/outs, housekeeping updates, wake-up calls, room moves, service billing, and more day-to-day operations with just a few clicks in one unified interface.  Back-office features such as custom room status, class of service, guest stay history, call accounting, and branded invoice are also included to further optimize workflows.

For small-scale hotels, the PBX-inbuilt hotel management provides a cost-efficient way to simplify day-to-day hotel operations without incurring the high costs of traditional property management systems. Hotel staff can effortlessly handle guest services, room management, and hotel communications in one unified system, eliminating the complexity of juggling multiple platforms. This ease of use reduces training time and improves operational efficiency, ultimately enhancing the guest experience.

“The addition of the Hotel Management module to our P-Series Phone System underscores Yeastar’s commitment to delivering value-added hotel communications solution,” said Arya Zhou, Head of Global Sales at Yeastar. “As hotels seek to enhance their operational efficiency and guest experience, our all-in-one solution offers the tools they need to succeed in a competitive market.”

Key Advantages of Yeastar P-Series Phone System for Hospitality

Unify all future-proof UC capabilities for scalable business growth, including PBX, call center, live chat, SMS, omnichannel messaging, Linkus UC Clients, and more.PBX-inbuilt Hotel Management module for lightweight hotel managementSupport a wide range of PMS integrations including Oracle Hospitality OperaSupport auto-provisioning 400+ popular hotel phone models in the marketEffortless deployment & excellent compatibility in different hotel setups

About Yeastar

Yeastar makes digital value easily accessible from ownership and adoption to daily usage and management by transforming how businesses connect and communicate. Yeastar has established itself as a leading provider of UC solutions with a strong ecosystem, a global network of channel partners, and over 450,000 customers worldwide. For more information about Yeastar or to become a Yeastar partner, please visit https://www.yeastar.com/.

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29,999,999,950 LTSC Transferred to Bluegrace Energy Bolivia Administrative Escrow Digital Wallet on Jan 10, 2025, at 05:46:24 AM UTC

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WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The underlying contract for billions of metric tonnes of voluntary market carbon offset was executed on Jan 1, 2025, and the transaction completed on Jan 10, 2025, marks a significant step forward in establishing LTSC as the foremost stablecoin digital currency facilitating seamless exchange between carbon offset providers and sellers.

Mr. Jean Bilala, Executive Chairman of Letscoin, stated that he is ready to proceed to the final step of the conversion of LTSC vs USDT. The contractual obligation and settlement of this placement will be done in parallel with the confirmation of the global carbon credit offset buyers.

When asked about the exit buyers’ confirmation and the market demand for this carbon credit offset, Dr. Thana Balan, the co-founder of LTSC, answered that the business is comprised of users that require carbon offsets. Given the global implementation of utilizing carbon credits to offset carbon footprints, this assists global businesses in achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

This process is ongoing, and it is a mandatory requirement that every industry producing a sizeable carbon footprint balances its carbon output with offsets. Industries such as airline operators, mining, oil & gas refining, and processing companies are all fully engaged. Any business that has a carbon footprint will need carbon credit offsets to operate in the very near future.

Regulations are already in place globally, which are implemented and followed. Letscoin is not alone in becoming the digital currency facilitator for this transaction. Associate, Kyoto Transformation Xchange (KTX), is developing a carbon credit tokenization system. This will include creating the system to identify measures and justify the value of the carbon footprint of all industries, land, agro facilities, reserve Amazon mapping, and more.

During their recent R&D technology meetings in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, KTX introduced rocket science and AI drone facility owners to collaborate and execute their mission of being the associated partner of LTSC.

The achievement of LTSC being the digital exchange medium connecting the trade of carbon credit offsets between providers and the end buyer is an important move to the stability and sustainability of LTSC in the digital stablecoin race globally.

LTSC has structured the “payment gateway” algorithm, generated automatically, which will become a user-friendly online application that can be adopted by any level of basic digital competency. Dr. Thana’s team has the mission to implement plans to facilitate local exchange trading for goods and services that is easily accessible by using the complementary currency programs.

With the adoption of agriculture and forestry lands in Indonesia, Africa, and South America under the agro and carbon footprint mapping, significant milestones have been achieved.

When asked about the execution schedules, Dr. Thana said the execution will be divided into various sectors:

Preservation of carbon footprintTrading of carbon offsetDigitalization of carbon footprint and data management

“Our main focus will be completing the exit sales of the current contract with Bluegrace/LTSC/USDT for the 3 billion metric tonnes of carbon credit offsets. End buyers’ confirmation has been obtained for the tabletop meeting with Bluegrace, which has been requested for Jan 20, 2025, in Europe.”

LTSC believes this meeting will be a great achievement and herald the completion of all the contract commitments signed on Jan 1, 2025, to the executors and the global carbon exchange market.

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Empowering Businesses of All Sizes: MyGuava Business Offers a New Standard in Financial Solutions

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LONDON, Jan. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In today’s fast-growing world, businesses need more than traditional banking services – they require innovative financial tools tailored to their specific needs. MyGuava Business is focused on meeting these demands, offering a ground-breaking platform that caters to businesses of all sizes.

Tailored Solutions for Every Business Size

One of the defining features of MyGuava Business is its bespoke quality. The platform is designed to support businesses of every size and industry, offering flexibility that ensures no one is left behind. Start-ups and small businesses benefit from straightforward, easy-to-use tools that promote growth without unnecessary complexity.

Transparent and Competitive Pricing

At a time when hidden fees and unclear pricing structures are all too common, MyGuava Business stands apart with its transparent and competitive rates. Businesses can plan their budgets confidently, knowing there won’t be any unexpected costs. For small businesses, this affordability is an essential requirement.

Seamless Onboarding and User Experience

The platform’s user-friendly interface makes navigation intuitive, ensuring that even those without extensive technical expertise can get started quickly. Clear dashboards, always accessible customer support and step-by-step guidance make MyGuava Business a platform that any business can adopt with ease.

Comprehensive Product Offerings: Covering Every Aspect of the Financial Sector

MyGuava Business goes beyond traditional financial management by offering a diverse range of services that cover all payment needs, whether the business transacts in person or online. From business accounts simplifying cross-border payments to payment terminals, e-commerce solutions, cards, payment links and invoice creation, the platform provides businesses with versatile tools to seamlessly manage transactions.

Built In-House with Customer Needs in Mind

What truly sets MyGuava Business apart is that it is a comprehensive end-to-end payments solution provider – a direct result of its in-house development. Unlike many platforms that rely on third-party tools, every feature of MyGuava Business is purpose-built to meet the unique needs of its users.

A Vision for the Future of Business Finance

MyGuava Business is more than just a financial platform – it’s a partner in growth. By combining affordability, adaptability, and a customer-centric design, it offers businesses the tools they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world.

In a world where adaptability and efficiency are crucial, MyGuava Business is the financial partner every business deserves. Discover more at myguava.com/business.

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Nikki Suleymanova
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