Knowledge Mining and Bioinformatics techniques to Advance Personalized Diagnostics and Therapeutics

该奖项由催化新的国际合作和智能健康项目共同资助，支持佛罗里达国际大学的纳弗塔利·里舍和美国-以色列科学技术基金会的安·利布舒茨组织的研讨会。知识挖掘和生物信息学技术促进个性化诊断和治疗的研讨会将于2012年2月在意大利佛罗伦萨与近距离个性化医疗大会同时举行。研讨会将促进在生物信息学工具的设计和开发方面的合作，以分析和处理大量的临床和基因组数据。本课题是临床数据挖掘、算法设计和生物信息学的交叉领域。众所周知，一种药物并不能给所有患者带来相同的结果，本次研讨会旨在促进国际合作，以确定影响药物有效性的个体遗传差异，制定可能的个性化治疗计划，既能提高医疗保健质量，又能降低成本。特别值得一提的是，该研讨会将促成美国、以色列、土耳其和巴勒斯坦科学家之间的合作。在土耳其大使馆和以色列-巴勒斯坦科学组织的主持下，讲习班的目的是汇集来自计算机科学、药理学、神经科学、公共卫生、医学信息学和生物信息学等领域的多学科科学家小组。这些未来的努力将以发展领域的各种专门知识和技术为基础，以改善国际卫生保健服务。

This award, co-funded by the Catalyzing New International Collaboration and Smart Health programs, supports a workshop organized by Naphtali Rishe of Florida International University and Ann Liebschutz of the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation. The workshop on Knowledge Mining and Bioinformatics Techniques to Advance Personalized Diagnostics and Therapeutics is to be held in conjunction with the Up Close and Personalized - Personalized Medicine Congress in Florence, Italy, February 2012. The workshop will foster collaboration in the design and development of bioinformatics tools to analyze and process large quantities of clinical and genomic data. This topic is at the intersection of clinical data-mining, algorithms design and bioinformatics. As it is well known that one drug does not deliver the same results to all patients, this workshop seeks to spur international collaborations to enable identification of individual genetic differences affecting drug effectiveness, making possible personalized treatment plans that can both improve the quality of healthcare while reducing its cost.In particular, the workshop will seed collaborations between U.S., Israeli, Turkish and Palestinian scientists. Through the auspices of the Turkish Embassy and Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization, the workshop is intended to bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists from the fields of computer science, pharmacology, neuroscience, public health, medical informatics and bioinformatics. These future endeavors will build on diverse areas of expertise and technologies in development to improve health care delivery internationally.