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My motivation in starting Tempus back in 2015 was personal. I set out to build a solution that could keep any one person with cancer alive. At the time, I thought that person might need to be my [...]

I’ve dreaded writing this post for a while, so please bear with me. As a CEO, I firmly believe business leaders should try to avoid taking a stand on political issues. Companies are a [...]

I’ve been building tech companies for the past 25 years and I have yet to see anything like what has occurred over the past few months with generative AI, and that means a lot given that [...]

About a dozen years ago, my wife and I set up a family foundation. Generally, we were focused on supporting four causes that we felt needed more attention: education, human rights, civic causes [...]

There has never been a more urgent time to harness and apply data science to help eradicate cancer. Why? For the first time, it is possible. We stand at the crossroads of two transformative [...]

The other day I read a letter written by my partner, Brad, to everyone at Uptake. In it, he referenced the power of asking yourself the most basic of questions, one of which was: “I wonder, [...]

The other morning I was listening to “Hurt” by Christina Aguilera. It’s a song about a daughter who loses her father and never got a chance to tell him how much he meant to her or how sorry [...]

We live in a complex world.   Technology is all around us, industries are evolving faster than ever, and the pace of innovation is almost daunting. It feels a bit like Ferris Bueller’s classic [...]

By Richard Sallari, Kevin White & Eric Lefkofsky Introduction Since the initial draft of the human genome was released in 2000, we have collected an unprecedented amount of genomic data as a [...]

By Eric Lefkofsky, Co-Founder and CEO @TempusLabs and Kevin White, President @TempusLabs This year roughly 50,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States. With the [...]