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OHSU teams with Intel to decode root causes of cancer and other complex
diseases
04-23-2013
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PORTLAND, Ore.—Oregon Health & Science University
(OHSU) and Intel Corp. announced in mid-April that they are teaming up to
develop next-generation
computing technologies for advancing the field of
personalized medicine, with an eye toward "dramatically increasing the speed,
precision and cost-
effectiveness of analyzing a patient's individual genetic
profile."
To that end, the two
organizations are forming a multi-year
research and engineering collaboration under which engineers and scientists
from the two institutions will
develop hardware, software and workflow
solutions for Intel's extreme-scale, high-performance computing solutions that will be designed to cope with the
unprecedented volume of complex biomedical data personalized
medicine generates and will continue to generate.
"This collaboration combines Intel's strengths in
developing energy-efficient, extreme-scale computing solutions with OHSU
's lead
in visualizing and understanding complex biological information," said Stephen
Pawlowski, Intel senior fellow and chief technology officer of
the company's Datacenter
and Connected Systems Group, in an official statement. "We look forward to working
together with the goal of improving the
efficiency of complex disease diagnosis
and personalized treatment."
Intel's so-called
extreme-scale computing is
reportedly capable of handling billions of complex computations simultaneously,
and this will be combined with OHSU's
"four-dimensional" approach in imaging
and analyzing the molecular-level drivers of cancer and other diseases. OHSU's
imaging techniques are said to
work like a "Google map" for cancer by providing
a highly detailed view of how cells change over time at the molecular level
along with a big-picture
analysis of how the cells behave as a system.
The ultimate objective of the collaborations isn't
simply to drive down costs or drive up efficiency but also to drive scientific
progress forward in understanding the
genetic origins of
illness, starting with cancer, Ideally, by doing this at an
individual patient level the life-sciences and healthcare communities will
better be able
to make precision medicine a more routine model of patient care
on a broad basis.
An integrated
OHSU/Intel team is currently working
on a research data center equipped with an Intel supercomputing cluster. Along
with top researchers from the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, the collaboration
will include computer scientists, biophysicists, genomicists,
bio-informaticists, biologists and other experts. The team's first projects
will be
focused on genetic profiling of patients' tumors to look for patterns
in how the disease progresses and how to relate this information to how the
tumor will respond to treatment.
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