Leading cancer research institution will use
the Manifold Observational Study technology to deliver a better
experience for participants, study managers, and principal
investigators
NEWTON,
Mass., July 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/
-- Manifold, an AI-powered clinical data platform streamlining
manual workflows in cancer research, today announced that the
American Cancer Society (ACS) will leverage their platform to
modernize its study management and support the organization's
groundbreaking VOICES of Black Women study. With Manifold, the
American Cancer Society is streamlining all aspects of population
research, including simplifying the participant experience for
surveys and collection, and enhancing how study managers design
dynamic surveys, engage with participants through personalized
email and SMS outreach, and monitor participant data over many
years.
Many organizations rely on legacy systems and spreadsheets to
track participant data and manage a study. These manual workflows
require countless hours of administrative time from teams that are
often under-resourced. Working with ACS to understand the
challenges that cancer researchers face, Manifold saw an
opportunity to streamline study operations, create an engaging,
consumer-friendly UI, leverage the modern data technology stack,
and, ultimately, retire legacy systems.
"At Manifold, we believe that the unsung heroes of cancer
population science – the participants and study managers – deserve
the kind of delightful app experience they have in their daily
lives," said Vinay Seth Mohta,
Manifold's CEO. "The Manifold Observational Study solution
automates manual steps wherever possible, resulting in more engaged
participants and empowered study managers. We're honored to support
the American Cancer Society in their groundbreaking cancer
disparities research."
The VOICES of Black Women study is the largest behavioral
and environmental-focused population study of cancer risk and
outcomes in Black women in the United
States and will investigate why cancer incidence and
mortality is higher among this group. Using the Manifold platform,
ACS will enroll over 100,000 participants into the VOICES study and
ask them to answer questions over 30 years. Data collected from the
VOICES study will flow into the Manifold Cancer Data Management
solution for scientific analyses. Results from this study will help
better understand the multi-level drivers of incidence, mortality,
and resilience of cancer and other health conditions among Black
women for future generations.
"My vision for modernizing cancer population science was a
connected study operations hub for teams to do their work and
collaborate without compromising security or privacy," said Dr.
Alpa Patel, Senior Vice President,
Population Science at the American Cancer Society. "Manifold's
platform allows our team to spend more time on designing impactful
studies and conducting research, and less time carrying out
administrative tasks."
Previously, the Manifold and ACS teams worked together to
migrate ACS's existing Cancer Prevention Studies to the Manifold
platform, connecting 11 terabytes of multimodal data from 1.5
million participants and transforming it for researchers to analyze
in the Manifold Cancer Data Science solution.
For more information on the VOICES of Black Women study, visit
https://voices.cancer.org/.
About Manifold
Manifold is an AI-powered clinical data
platform which streamlines the manual workflows of clinical
research. Organizations of all sizes — from small research teams to
world-renowned institutions — use our software to connect
disease-specific multi-modal data and conduct high-impact research.
Our vision is to make it ten times faster and one-tenth the cost to
generate more knowledge, develop better treatments, and improve
patient outcomes. For more information, visit us here, or follow us
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