Case Study: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai achieves rapid, secure genomic analysis of cancer data with Amazon Web Services

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Customer Case Study

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a leader in medical research and care, needed to mine more than 100 TB of TCGA breast and ovarian tumor and germline sequence data to find hereditary cancer risk factors beyond BRCA1/BRCA2. Researchers required massive, secure compute and storage to process thousands of genomes, iterate on analyses, and share controlled-access data with collaborators.

Working with Station X, Mount Sinai deployed the GenePool platform on Amazon Web Services to provide elastic compute, large-scale storage, strict access controls, and monitoring. The AWS-based solution enabled rapid, secure analysis—reducing turnaround from days to minutes—helped identify and enrich novel candidate genes, accelerated collaboration, and made scalable, compliant genomic research possible.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

John A. Martignetti

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai