Aitia (f.k.a GNS Healthcare) is a biosimulation company based in Somerville, MA. A company called Gene Network Sciences (GNS), was founded in 2000 by

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physicists Colin Hill and Iya Khalil, which focused on

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models of interactions among genes and proteins in cells, with a focus on cancer

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. Aitia was formed as a subsidiary of GNS in 2010 to apply the data analytic methods the company had developed to the

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and

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industries.

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