Center For Computational Medicine

Dienstag, Mär 8, 2022

The new Hebrew University Center For Computational Medicine will bridge the gap between Data Science and Patient care, replacing the ‚one size fits all’ model of medical treatment with data-driven, personalised health solutions. 

Despite great advances made in understanding and treating human disease, we are still struggling with the major complex maladies of our time: cancer, neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, metabolic, and infectious diseases. To combat these illnesses, we need to develop a fundamentally new approach, now made possible via advances in data science. Treating disease effectively now requires the integration of individual patient genetic and molecular profiles with that of thousands of other patients, and the application of algorithms to detect patterns and tailor effective personalized treatment.  Such big-patient-data architecture and algorithm composition require the embedding of computational approaches within the medical arena. This is the promise of Computational Medicine.

An Algorithm for Success 

At the heart of this initiative will be a core team of leading scientists, clinicians, and clinician-researchers with expertise in computational approaches to biomedical research and clinical treatment. Some are already in place, and more are being recruited. Key to this endeavor is a new state-of-the-art medical re-search and teaching building, de-signed specifically to support the workflow of such research, from data acquisition and storage to in-depth data analysis to testing and developing novel methods for precision disease prevention diagnosis, and treatment.

The Center will be located on the Ein Kerem medical campus, alongside existing research buildings and the Hadassah Medical Center.

With basic science researchers, clinicians, computer scientists and a new generation of computationally-trained medical researchers, cutting-edge infrastructure, sophisticated computational systems, broad-based patient information databases, testing facilities, state-of-the-art equipment, and a drug modeling unit – all in close proximity to a major medical center – Computational Medicine @ Hebrew University is sure to break new ground in harnessing the power of data to cure disease.

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