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Pathology digitization and the fight against cancer

Google Public Sector

Samples from the AFIP were instrumental in solving many public health challenges, like sequencing the genome of the 1918 influenza virus. In 2005, AFIP’s biorepository was transferred to the newly created Joint Pathology Center (JPC). But then, in August 2020, JPC went forward with a non-competitive, non-publicly-sourced contract.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

He referred to 12 the tension between their profit-making and their public sector mission as “the inherent conflict and flawed business model embedded in the GSE structure,” resulting in a “conflict of interest attempting to serve both shareholders and a public mission.” mortgage originations.

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