Workshop: Data and Imagery Analytics for Precision Medicine and Outreach of NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers

本次研讨会将为临床数据挖掘、数据分析和精准医疗领域的美国和以色列专家提供一个宝贵的机会，讨论他们各自的研究工作和合作潜力。研讨会的目标是建立互利的研究合作，这将改善精确医学应用计算方面的研究工作。形成的研究合作将有可能导致个性化医疗的改进，从而为美国和世界各地的人们带来更好的医疗结果。将美国学术和私营部门的顶尖研究人员与以色列的同行联系起来，具有改善精准医疗应用数据分析的强大潜力，从而实现更好的分析、更准确的诊断、更有效的治疗和更高的治疗成功率。NSF已经资助了几个专注于该领域的产学研合作研究中心（I/ ucrc），特别是高级知识实现中心（CAKE）和混合多核生产力研究中心（CHMPR），其成员和附属机构将为本次会议贡献大部分美国参与者。以色列参与者将主要包括来自以色列理工学院（以色列理工学院）、特拉维夫大学的研究人员，以及从事数据分析和精准医疗应用的以色列企业代表，以及以色列政府人员，他们对鼓励竞争前、行业支持的研究和与美国研究人员在这些领域的合作感兴趣。由于以色列研究人员在数据分析和个性化医疗方面的学术和工业部门的著名专业知识，以及以色列在工业相关基础研究方面的投资，这次会议是及时的，具有战略价值。这次会议为发起新的合作提供了一个巨大的机会，这可能对推进美国在精准医疗信息技术方面的研究工作具有巨大的价值。此外，可能会招募新的国际合作伙伴加入美国I/UCRC，美国I/UCRC成员将发现新的市场机会。

This workshop will provide a valuable opportunity for U.S. and Israeli experts in the fields of clinical data mining, data analytics and precision medicine to meet to discuss their respective research efforts and the potential for partnerships. The goal of the workshop is to create mutually beneficial research collaborations that will improve research efforts in computing for precision medicine applications. The research collaborations that are formed will potentially result in improvements in personalized medicine that can lead to better medical outcomes for people in the U.S. and around the world. Connecting top U.S. researchers in the academic and private sector with their counterparts in Israel has strong potential to improve data analytics for precision medicine applications, resulting in better analyses, more accurate diagnoses, more effective treatments and improved therapeutic success rates. The NSF has funded several Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRCs) with focus on this area, notably the Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE) and the Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR) whose members and affiliates will contribute the majority of the U.S. participants to this meeting. Israeli participants will include primarily researchers from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Tel Aviv University and representatives from Israeli businesses working in data analytics and precision medicine applications, as well as Israeli government personnel interested in encouraging pre-competitive, industry-supported research and partnership with US researchers in these areas. This meeting is timely and of strategic value because of the noted expertise of Israeli researchers in the academic and industrial sector in both data analytics and personalized medicine and because of the investments that Israel is making in industry-relevant basic research. This meeting provides a tremendous opportunity for new collaborations to be initiated which are likely to be of tremendous value to advancing U.S. research efforts on information technologies for precision medicine. In addition, new international partners may be recruited to join U.S. I/UCRCs and new market opportunities will be discovered by the U.S. I/UCRC members.