Project description
A novel training network is fostering skills to exploit big data for personalised medicine
Rapid technological and medical advances have paved the way to high throughput methodologies and the generation of tremendous amounts of biomedical data and libraries. Exploiting all this data and turning it into useful information requires powerful computing and advanced programming, modelling and analytics. Further, exploiting such data on an individual basis paves the way to personalised or precision medicine based on an intricate understanding of the patients’ disease and disease process. TranSYS is providing a turbo-boost to a new field at the intersection of translational medicine and systems analytics. The project is training young researchers in interdisciplinary tools needed to take healthcare from the bench to an individual's bedside with the help of big data analysis.
Objective
TranSYS will recruit 15 ESRs to highly skilled jobs in the new area of Systems Health developing tools and approaches to exploit large and complex datasets, to advance Precision (Personalised) Medicine in several disease areas. The training programme and experience of different international research environments cuts across traditional data and life sciences silos. The emphasis on translational research will support new collaborations between academics and the pharma and health analytics sectors. Our ESR projects will advance the state of the art on biomarker discovery, improve understanding of disease-specific molecular mechanism and target identification for optimal diagnostics, disease risk and treatment management, refine data generation and their management (including warehousing, disease specific and standardised approaches for data processing, visualisation and model development) leading to improved clinical study design, clinical sampling and more targeted therapeutics. This ETN will internationalise participants, and leverage EC and industry sponsorship, to structure and expand the unique training programme and advance emerging research areas, combining wet-lab, clinical and Big Data resources with computational and modelling know-how.
To achieve a paradigm shift in research training this ETN brings together international leaders in Preclinical Science & Molecular Medicine, Systems Analytics, and Targeted Therapeutics, from academia and industry. These experts are ideally positioned to develop the proposed training programme and deliver a highly-trained workforce of next generation scientists, with the right mind-set, knowledge and skills, at the interface of Translational and Systems Medicine. The TranSYS training programme is designed to address a critical skills gap that is currently a bottle neck to advancing Precision Medicine.
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3000 Leuven
Belgium