UAE-based G42 Healthcare collaborates with Amazon Web Services

UAE-based G42 Healthcare collaborates with Amazon Web Services

- A global offering for population genomics and life science R&D programs powered by AWS

UAE: -G42 Healthcare, an Abu Dhabi-based leading health tech company and a subsidiary of artificial intelligence and cloud computing company G42, has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop new global genomics, proteomics, and biobanking service.

The collaboration announced at the BIO International Convention in San Diego, California, will aim to bring global access to G42 Healthcare's world-leading next-generation sequencing, proteomics, and data analytics capabilities to governments, population genome programs, and life science initiatives across the world. Representatives from G42 Healthcare and AWS attended the signing ceremony.

Transitioning from localized biological samples tucked away in biobanks to high-quality omics data and insight at scale is transforming population health, precision medicine, life science R&D, and agriculture. Unlocking the potential of such bioresource is costly and complex, needing major investment and often hard to get expertise. The G42 Healthcare - AWS initiative is about enabling this value swiftly, safely, reliably, and in an affordable way.

G42 Healthcare owns the region’s largest Omics Centre of Omics Excellence in Abu Dhabi, which can deliver over 500,000 whole-genome sequences per year.

Ashish Koshy, G42 Healthcare’s CEO said: “Abu Dhabi is just a