The $320k grant will support research that builds on IQuity’s autoimmune diagnostic expertise and new data analytics platform. The company believes the emerging therapies for Alzheimer's will be most effective if they are used to treat the disease early in its progression.

Nashville-based genomics company iQuity is building a data mining and analytics platform that will predict and monitor chronic diseases from public and private datasets from large populations.

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